On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: : : On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Carlos Barros wrote: : : > And Other thing is that by default 'less' use as editor other than : > 'vi' (I think that 'vi' is the standart editor in unix), may be 'ae'( : > don't remember). : : yes, this is very annoying, isn't it. because of some debian policies : (which do make some sense even if they are inconvenient at times - : although i still think that it is braindead for vipw and visudo and the : v key in less to call any editor other than vi), the only convenient way : to fix this is to edit /etc/profile and add the lines: : : export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi : export VISUAL=$EDITOR
I wish this was the standard ;) : while you're doing that, you may as well as add the following as well. : man is a lot more usable when the pager is less. : : export MANOPT=-Pless Is there an advantage to this way, as opposed to setting PAGER to /usr/bin/less ? : if you're running a recent version of less (i.e. from hamm) then you : can set up less so that it automatically detects various file types : (e.g. gzipped files and tar files etc) and pre-processes them before : displaying them. Add the following to /etc/profile: : : eval ($lesspipe) Minor nitpick: that should read "eval $(lesspipe)", shouldn't it? Yes, this is handy (didn't Slackware do this quite some time ago??) ... I can't believe I ever got along without this feature :) : earlier versions of less required you to write your own script and set the : LESSOPEN and/or LESSCLOSE variables yourself. see the less documentation : for details. : : these instructions only work for sh-like shells (bash, zsh, ksh). if you : use csh or tcsh then you'll have to modify them to work with csh. i think : you use /etc/cshrc instead of /etc/profile and 'setenv' rather than : 'export' or something like that. : : : BTW, this belongs on debian-user, not on debian-admintool. : : craig : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .