Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:55:14 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@gorean.org> To: Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster rocks! Message-ID: <36B09672.C98F4B91@gorean.org> References: <199901280812.TAA29221@lightning.itga.com.au> <19990128024920.C16540@futuresouth.com> <199901281431.JAA30813@whizzo.transsys.com> <19990128163314.F80672@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com>
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Jos Backus wrote:
> Another idea: if, say, your PAGER lives in /usr/local/bin, make it find it:
I've had several requests for that. The solution I would propose is to
specify the full path to your pager in the PAGER environment variable.
Because of what it does, I was ultra paranoid with things like PATH, so
I'd prefer not to add more directories.
> --- mergemaster.orig Thu Jan 28 16:31:16 1999
> +++ mergemaster Thu Jan 28 16:31:55 1999
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
> # $Date: 1998/09/28 03:40:04 $
>
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
> +test -d /usr/local/bin && PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
Well I definitely wouldn't put /usr/local first.. you'd be better off
with PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin if you wanted to do it this way.
Doug
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