On 1 May 2012, at 19:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 02:11 PM, Stroller wrote:
>> So /etc/profile contains the following message:
>>
>> # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user
>> # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/.
>> export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano}
>> export PAGER=${PAGER:-/usr/bin/less}
>>
>> Therefore I have created a plain text file /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults
>>
>
> First of all, use `eselect pager` =)
Actually, if you look at the contents of my essential_defaults file, I'm not so
interested in the pager as the MANPAGER setting. I find that after using `most`
as my man-pager, it's quite horrible using `less` on a new system. For anything
else, `less` is fine.
Stroller.
