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[Solved]I might have mis-configured something now my PKGBUILD use this vim like editor? I don't even have vim installed, it only print out plain text in the terminal before, how can I revert it back? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Dude you're a time saver, it's actually less a text editor I never heard of before after I removed it PKGBUILD revert back to what it was before, it probably come with man page package I installed recently

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Less is not an editor, it's a "pager" which is a read-only viewer for files, or for command output that doesn't fit in a single screen, or whatever. Generally to control which you want programs use you set the PAGER environment variable.

The old grandaddy pager was called "more", as in "there's more text than fits on the screen". The successor is called "less". For most purposes, less is more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Another way to fix this, would have been to navigate to the pkgbuild file in question, right click, open with, Kate. I’m more familiar with Gnome than KDE but I assume there’s an option to make Kate your default for opening files of that type.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

After my first comment i digged into the man page of paru and found that another, although temporary, way is to use -fm <command> flag