Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:11:26 +0100 From: Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster rocks! Message-ID: <19990129101126.A4698@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> In-Reply-To: <36B09672.C98F4B91@gorean.org>; from Studded on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:55:14AM -0800 References: <199901280812.TAA29221@lightning.itga.com.au> <19990128024920.C16540@futuresouth.com> <199901281431.JAA30813@whizzo.transsys.com> <19990128163314.F80672@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> <36B09672.C98F4B91@gorean.org>
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On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:55:14AM -0800, Studded wrote:
> 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.
I see your point, yes.
> 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.
Well, this way it is possible to transparently override system commands by the
same name. Of course, as always, you have to know what you are doing.
Anyway, thanks for this very useful tool.
Cheers,
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