[wellylug] cat README | more ???

[Mark Signal]

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

vi is the definition of  un-intuitive and obscure and several other words 
that I cant spell

it makes me use bad language and eventually makes me type sensible things 
like apt-get install pine.

cheers

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Enkidu" <enkidu at cliffp.com>
To: <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [wellylug] cat README | more ???



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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