On 1 May 2012, at 23:52, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 07:11:37PM +0100, Stroller wrote
>> So /etc/profile contains the following message:
>>
>> # You should override these in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent) for per-user
>> # settings. For system defaults, you can add a new file in /etc/profile.d/.
>> export EDITOR=${EDITOR:-/bin/nano}
>> export PAGER=${PAGER:-/usr/bin/less}
>>
>> Therefore I have created a plain text file /etc/profile.d/essential_defaults
>
> … The items you mentioned are EDITOR and PAGER. For the
> official way of changing global settings, see...
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=5&style=printable
> for examples. In my case…
Nope, those are merely the next two lines from the file when I ran `grep -C X`
to find where I'd read about putting files in /etc/profile.d/.
If you read my original post (solved) now, you'll see that in my actual
my_defaults.sh file I only concern myself with the MANPAGER, the history file
and vi-style line editing (for Bash).
Sorry if this was unclear,
Stroller.
