From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 19:05:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E45816A40F for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:05:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BB443E40 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:37:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [172.23.170.146] (helo=anti-virus03-09) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gs1f6-0000ch-87; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:38:32 +0000 Received: from [82.41.32.99] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gs1f5-0004Qt-Al; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:38:31 +0000 Message-ID: <45770E26.6050205@dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:38:30 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061205 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Becker References: <4576BA59.8070603@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <20061206082150.8421.GERARD@seibercom.net> <4576EBF2.80900@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <4576F120.1080602@dial.pipex.com> <4577031F.40902@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4577031F.40902@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: python 2.3 binary package bug X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:05:47 -0000 Robin Becker wrote: > > more relaxing somehow even though it's really the same info. Perhaps > it was the fact that send-pr uses vi rather than my normal vim. All > those nice colours would have helped. Thanks for the pointers. If you set $VISUAL in your environment to "/usr/local/bin/vim" (assuming that's where it lives) then send-pr ought to use that for your editor. The same is true for many other utilities which use an editor such as less, cvs etc. Only need to be careful that in single-user mode you may not have /usr/local available in which case a quick "unset VISUAL" or "unsetenv VISUAL" ((t)csh) is all you need. (If VISUAL is not set most utilities then look for $EDITOR. Traditionally EDITOR was expected to be a line-editor which would work on a teletype, but not much call for that these days :-)). --Alex