elimar, i tried: echo "export PAGER=less" >> ~/.bashrc echo "export aCeiMs=LESS" >> ~/.bashrc
not sure about the second line; shouldn't it be echo "export LESS=aCeiMs" >> ~/.bashrc anyway i tried both ways -- unfortunately, neither of these work. if you follow this thread, it seems that less is already my default pager; bash is using an internal more-like pager. --- Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 the mental interface of > James Haskell told: > > > hello all, > > > > i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it > *seems* > > that in the process, my pager has changed from > > /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. > > e.g. if i type: > > cd /usr/include/ <tab> <tab> > > bash displays: > > Display all 370 possibilities? (y or n) > > when i type y, bash lists the files using > /bin/more. > > > > chase `which pager` says that /usr/bin/pager > points to > > /usr/bin/less. > > > > how do i get less to be my default pager? and am > i > > correct in concluding that the upgrade changed my > pager? > > echo "export PAGER=less" >> .bashrc > echo "export aCeiMs=LESS" >> .bashrc #Change less > options to your needs. > > Elimar > > -- > >what IMHO then? > IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate > ;) > --posting from alex in debian-user-- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]