Re: not in X. man command does not respect set bell-style visible

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks@post.harvard.edu>]

On 18:02 Thu 01 Mar     , Claudius Hubig wrote:

> That’s because you only set this variable to your shell and did not
> export it. Observe:
that was what i wanted to know. now i see that export makes it available to programs.

> would then contain something like:
> 
> ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->
> #!/bin/sh
> /bin/less -q $*
> -<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<

i use perl more than shell. that was very helpful as well.

i have to delve more into
 man bash ...

> 
> To then install this (after making it executable) as an alternative
> for pager, one would have to:
> 
> # update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/pager pager /usr/local/bin/lessq 100
> 
> which should automagically select /u/l/b/lessq as the default pager.
> If you want to change that, try
> 
> # update-alternatives --config pager
> 
> or, to get more information:
> 
> # update-alternatives --query pager
> 
> Of course,
> 
> $ man update-alternatives
> 
> is always a good starting point for such things.

thank you.
I did not know that we could make our own additions with update-alternatives...
i thought it was just a chose and select program....

Thank you very much

Mitchell