On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 01:09:44PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Greetings comrades. > > Some of you might be more experienced in the old Unix ways and > might know how in the good old days all the environment variables > were standardized. What I am up to: There are these new stylish > ways of running applications based on their file extensions or > mime types, which is annoying and leads to many symlinks. Instead > some environment variables do exist. But maybe history has evolved > some other substandards than I know? > > Variables: > $PAGER → pager (used by man) > $EDITOR → editor > > > $SOCKS_SERVER, $NO_PROXY, $AUTO_PROXY, $HTTP_PROXY, > $HTTPS_PROXY, $FTP_PROXY, $ALL_PROXY > → proxies and exceptions (used by chromium) > > Variables my environment has: > $BROWSER → web browser > $XTERM → X terminal emulator > $MEDIAPLAYER → used for playing any media file > $DOWNLOADER → (wget) > $DOWNLOADDIR → where to download files to >
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin LC_COLLATE=C to make capitalized filenames go first in `ls` output BROWSER, EDITOR, VISUAL, MAILER, PAGER for programs HISTFILE, LESSHISTFILE (/dev/null) NNTPSERVER MAIL XDG_CACHE_HOME=$HOME/xdg/cache XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/xdg/config XDG_DATA_HOME=$HOME/xdg/data XDG_DESKTOP_DIR, XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR, ...
