[wellylug] cat README | more ???

Mark Signal mark at databackup.co.nz
Wed Nov 3 16:55:17 NZDT 2004


works with 'more' as well 

how do you change from vi to a user freindly editor?

cheers

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Antliff" <dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz>
To: <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [wellylug] cat README | more ???


> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, jumbophut wrote:
>> But I use 'cat | less' a lot more than I write about why I use 'cat |
>> less', so a few more wasted keystrokes for the exceptional case is
>> fine.
> 
> One nice feature of 'less <file>' is you can hit 'v' and edit the file 
> with whatever envvar EDITOR is set to (or vi by default). You obviously 
> can't do this with 'cat <file> | less'
> 
> -- 
> David
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