On 19:01 Wed 29 Feb , Sven Joachim wrote: > > This is because .inputrc is only honored by programs that use readline, > and the standard pager does not use that. > > > how to get rid of this? > > Make sure that less (the standard pager) is invoked with the "-q" > option. E.g. set PAGER="/usr/bin/less -q" in the environment. > Thank you that explains the problem to me.
I see now that unless less is invoked with the -q option i will get the sound. I see references on google to the fact that the pager is set via the PAGER variable but when I do echo $PAGER I get nothing. 1) I see that there is a pager and that 2) man pager gives me man less and that 3) which pager is /usr/bin/pager which is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/pager which is a link to /bin/less (this chain i find amusing). 3) so my system does not seem to use the PAGER variable ?? so how to make pager link to /bin/less -q instead of linking to /bin/less. Do I use the alias abiltiy? I tried to edit the .bash_aliases file and created the entries pager='less -q' less='less -q' within that file and that successfully shut up sound on less and pager but it did not shut up sound for man. I still have a beepy noisy man. I tried export $PAGER="less -q" and that seemed not work either. Thanks Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120301003148.ga12...@earthlink.net
