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From: Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage wants to remove less and nano
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:15:33AM +0200, Niccol=F2 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
>=20
> It's strange, there was no defaults editor and pager...
>=20
> 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.=20

W
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