[GRASS5] 'unsubscribe grass5'

[Tinus Joubert]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric G. Miller" <egm2 at jps.net>
To: <grass5 at geog.uni-hannover.de>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Arrow keys and default pager


> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:43:26AM +0200, Reinhard Brunzema wrote:
> >
> > > Second issue: I see that the default pager for GRASS man pager is
> > > "more",
> > > but under linux the default pager is usually "less", much more
powerful
> > > and easier to use. I'm getting tired of typing "export PAGER=less"
every
> > > time I login in GRASS... couldn't it be a default option if "less" is
> > > available on the machine (at least under Linux)?
> >
> > Hallo,
> > I had the same thoughts a couple of days before. A possible solution
> > would be:
> >
> > Replacing the lines
> > ---
> > # Set some environment variables if they are not set
> > if [ ! "$PAGER" ] ; then
> >     PAGER=more
> >     export PAGER
> > fi
> > ---
> > with
> > ---
> > # Set some environment variables if they are not set
> > if [ ! "$PAGER" ] ; then
> > lesspath=`which less 2> /dev/null`
> > if [ -x "$lesspath" ] ; then
> > PAGER=less
> > else
> >     PAGER=more
> >     fi
> >     export PAGER
> > fi
>
> The "which" command is not Bourne Shell (unfortunately).  I've seen
> hacks to emulate it...
>
> --
> Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>
>
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