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From: Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 07:25:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111007112527.GA30406@math.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8EC335.5090500@linuxsystems.it>

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:15:33AM +0200, Niccolò Belli wrote:
> Il 06/10/2011 23:09, David Abbott ha scritto:
> >To see your default editor and pager;
> >eselect editor list&&  eselect pager list
> 
> It's strange, there was no defaults editor and pager...
> 
> laptop ~ # eselect editor list && eselect pager list
> Available targets for the EDITOR variable:
>   [1]   /bin/nano
>   [2]   /usr/bin/ex
>   [3]   /usr/bin/vi
>   [ ]   (free form)
> Available targets for the PAGER variable:
>   [1]   /bin/more
>   [2]   /usr/bin/less
>   [ ]   (free form)

Most likely you've never set them. Use 'eselect editor set X' where X
is 1 for nano, 2 for ex, and 3 for vi etc. 

W
-- 
Willie W. Wong                                     wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire 
         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-07 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-06 20:47 [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano Niccolò Belli
2011-10-06 21:02 ` Alex Schuster
2011-10-06 21:15   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-10-06 21:31     ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-06 21:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Florian Philipp
2011-10-06 21:09 ` David Abbott
2011-10-07  2:06   ` Dale
2011-10-07  2:19     ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07  7:30       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-07 14:03         ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07  9:15   ` Niccolò Belli
2011-10-07 11:25     ` Willie Wong [this message]
2011-10-07 11:30       ` Niccolò Belli
2011-10-07 12:22         ` Albert W. Hopkins

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