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.


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