From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 09:26:22 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGVjL1bDRj=UqyfL-qV0_yUd_azYg8b8r2dcdNt=yxxb9w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7D3305AC-916C-4244-889D-7718DE259CFB@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
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On May 2, 2012 2:48 AM, "Stroller" <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
'most' is for sissies ; I use vimmanpager for MANPAGER, and vimpager for
PAGER. ;-)
Rgds,
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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
2012-05-02 2:26 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
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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