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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 20:40:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7D3305AC-916C-4244-889D-7718DE259CFB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA02B00.4040806@orlitzky.com>


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.




  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-01 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-01 18:11 [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/ Stroller
2012-05-01 18:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank
2012-05-01 19:41   ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2012-05-01 18:27 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-05-01 19:40   ` Stroller [this message]
2012-05-02  2:26     ` Pandu Poluan
2012-05-02  4:01       ` Stroller
2012-05-01 18:38 ` Alex Schuster
2012-05-01 19:42   ` Stroller
2012-05-01 22:52 ` Walter Dnes
2012-05-02  3:58   ` Stroller

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