[GRASS5] GRASS_PAGER

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 10 22:47:09 EST 2005


> I have recently tried GRASS6 on Mac and MSWindows and found that
> GRASS_PAGER uses less instead of more, which is very incovenient
> (and for some people confusing, because you have to type q after
> running g.list to get your grass prompt back).
..
> it is there already and it looks like it uses less if it cannot find
> more under /bin ???
> 
>  173 # Once the new environment system is committed we can delete
>  these lines
>     174 # Export the PAGER environment variable for those who have it
> set
>     175 if [ "$PAGER" ] ; then
>     176     export PAGER
>     177 fi
>     178
>     179 # Set some environment variables if they are not set
>     180 if [ ! "$GRASS_PAGER" ] ; then
>     181     if [ -x /bin/more ] ; then
>     182         GRASS_PAGER=more
>     183     else
>     184         GRASS_PAGER=less
>     185     fi
>     186     export GRASS_PAGER


On Mac OSX, "more" is in /usr/bin/.  init.sh updated in CVS to look
there too before reverting to "less". Where is it on cygwin?



Hamish




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