[wellylug] cat README | more ???

[Enkidu]

export EDITOR=pine ?

(Humph! vi IS a user friendly editor if you know it!)

Cheers,

Cliff

On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 16:55:17 +1300, you wrote:

>works with 'more' as well 
>
>how do you change from vi to a user freindly editor?
>
>----- 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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