Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:10:12 +0200 Sebastian Haglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:43 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Here are all my variables, generated by "env". I dont see those in > > there, but VI still wont load from less. > > > > I found this old entry in the

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Sebastian Haglund
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:43 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > Here are all my variables, generated by "env". I dont see those in > there, but VI still wont load from less. > I found this old entry in the Debian changelog for less: -- >% less (332-2) unstable; urgency=low

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:55:46 +0200 Sebastian Haglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:32 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > > Check your VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables. > > > > Hi. Could you walk me through it please? I am not very comfortable > > with checking those va

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Sebastian Haglund
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:32 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Check your VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables. > > Hi. Could you walk me through it please? I am not very comfortable with > checking those variables, as I dont know how to. THanks. > > Benedek It depends on on your shell, I'll as

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:14:58 +0200 Sebastian Haglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:00 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > Always, when I read a file, I type for example > > > > less /etc/acpi/acpi > > > > And in LESS, I can press "v" and I will get into vi for ed

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:14:58 +0200 Sebastian Haglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:00 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > Hi > > > > Always, when I read a file, I type for example > > > > less /etc/acpi/acpi > > > > And in LESS, I can press "v" and I will get into vi for ed

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Andre Schmidt
Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why less wont use vi as it's editor anymore? Hi, From man less: -8<-- v Invokes an editor to edit the current file being viewed. The editor is taken from the environment variable VISUAL if defined, or EDITOR if VISUAL i

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Sebastian Haglund
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:00 +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > Hi > > Always, when I read a file, I type for example > > less /etc/acpi/acpi > > And in LESS, I can press "v" and I will get into vi for editing. It was > very fne upuntil now, but nowdays I was removing quite a few packages, > and sudd

Re: LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Michael Marsh
On 7/1/05, Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And in LESS, I can press "v" and I will get into vi for editing. It was > very fne upuntil now, but nowdays I was removing quite a few packages, > and suddenly when I press "v" inside "less" I will get mc's (Midnight > Commander) editor, which

LESS for reading, and VI for editing, but not working anymore

2005-07-01 Thread Benedek Frank
Hi Always, when I read a file, I type for example less /etc/acpi/acpi And in LESS, I can press "v" and I will get into vi for editing. It was very fne upuntil now, but nowdays I was removing quite a few packages, and suddenly when I press "v" inside "less" I will get mc's (Midnight Commander) e