From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 13:28:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3300C37B401 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3867843E3B for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:28:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pippo@bellnet.ca) Received: from pippo.bellnet.ca ([65.94.100.111]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021024202826.LTIR17238.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@pippo.bellnet.ca>; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:28:26 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024161852.00aa3800@pop51.bellnet.ca> X-Sender: lesp3999@pop51.bellnet.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:28:24 -0400 To: Matthew Seaman From: pippo@bellnet.ca Subject: Re: how to add space Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021024200557.GA1424@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024125901.00aad960@pop51.bellnet.ca> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024093139.00a8df48@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024093139.00a8df48@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021024125901.00aad960@pop51.bellnet.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:05 PM 10/24/2002 +0100, you wrote: >vi isn't my favourite editor either, but it's well worth persevering >with it to the extent that you can make simple edits without too much >difficulty. This is not a problem. Only, in single user mode it gave me a blank screen and then I could not navigate and it even froze - I was able to exit without saving, but the files were still screwed up. >Either that or be careful to always set the EDITOR >environment variable. In single user you'll probably also need to: > > TERM=cons25 ; export TERM > >for most full screen editors. Hmmm... question: My screen is set to cons50 with green on black While we're at it, I'm a little klost on the setting of environment variables. So far in several years of putzin about with FBSD, I have never had to actually set the variables. All has always worked well by default. So, how would I go about setting the environment variables, especially in single user mode? Do I shutdown now and at the prompt enter TERM=cons50 ? And when I go into single user mode, I have been setting the shell to /usr/local/sbin/bash - does it really make any difference if I use that or should I just go with the default csh? PJ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message