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From: chaffee@reed.bitnet (Alex Chaffee,(259),,2341988)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Changing default defaults
Message-ID: <15514@reed.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 90 19:48:04 GMT
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Reply-To: chaffee@reed.bitnet (Alex Chaffee)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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I've installed elm on our college computers (a Vax and a half dozen
workstations) and I'd like to make the default editor and pager be "jove"
and "builtin" respectively.  Unfortunately, in the standard .cshrc file are
definitions for $EDITOR and $PAGER, which override the compile-time standard
options.  Is there any way to get elm to ignore the environment variables?

By the way, there are two problems with the environment variables as
defined: 1) the default PAGER is more, not builtin, and 2) the default
EDITOR has the path name for the Vax spelled out ("/usr/local/jove"), which
doesn't work on the workstations ("/local/bin/jove").  Elm is bright enough
to find just "jove", without a pathname, on either machine.  But if someone
saves their elmrc with /usr/local/jove hardwired, then tries to use elm on
the workstations, it'll choke.  Oh yeah, we share the same account
filesystems no matter which machine you're logged on to.

Thanks,

 - Alex