Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 08:25:09 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? Message-ID: <20020807072509.GA31679@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020806223420.F88874-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <20020806192425.K93310-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> <20020806223420.F88874-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:40:33PM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> Also, don't over-estimate the utility of an $EDITOR envi variable; Don't
> forget about a $PAGER variable which IMHO ought to be `less -e` instead of
> the usual and unusually morbid `more.`
Ah, but on FreeBSD, less is more, more or less:
happy-idiot-talk:~:% ls -lai /usr/bin/{more,less}
8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/less*
8199 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 85844 Aug 3 17:16 /usr/bin/more*
The reasons it's called as 'more' by default on FreeBSD are history
and POLA.
If you prefer to change the value, then as an individual user you
should know how to edit your .cshrc or .profile or .tcshrc or
.whatever for your favourite shell. As an admin, you can modify the
defaults for new accounts by editing the files in /usr/share/skel or
you can modify the global /etc/profile or /etc/csh.cshrc or even add
that environment variable in a shell-agnostic way by modifying
/etc/login.conf
Cheers,
Matthew
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