Re: [dev] Environment variables

From: Ruben Gonzalez Arnau <rga_AT_sdf.lonestar.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:28:02 +0100

On 02/12/2012 13:09, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> Greetings comrades.
>
> Some of you might be more experienced in the old Unix ways and
> might know how in the good old days all the environment variables
> were standardized. What I am up to: There are these new stylish
> ways of running applications based on their file extensions or
> mime types, which is annoying and leads to many symlinks. Instead
> some environment variables do exist. But maybe history has evolved
> some other substandards than I know?
>
> Variables:
> $PAGER → pager (used by man)
> $EDITOR → editor
>
>
> $SOCKS_SERVER, $NO_PROXY, $AUTO_PROXY, $HTTP_PROXY,
> $HTTPS_PROXY, $FTP_PROXY, $ALL_PROXY
> → proxies and exceptions (used by chromium)
>
> Variables my environment has:
> $BROWSER → web browser
> $XTERM → X terminal emulator
> $MEDIAPLAYER → used for playing any media file
> $DOWNLOADER → (wget)
> $DOWNLOADDIR → where to download files to
>
> I know of the LSB `getconf -a`, but this only yields rather
> commercially intended configurations.
>
> What do the suckless people use in their environment?
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
>
$PROMPT_COMMAND
$DISPLAY
$PRINTER
$TZ
$LESS
$GREP_OPTIONS
$GREP_COLOR
$LSCOLORS
$LS_COLORS


And others like ($PS1, $LANG, $LC_ALL, $MM_CHARSET, $REMOTEHOST,
$OSTYPE, $HOST, $HOSTNAME, $CLICOLOR, $MANCOLOR etc)

Regards

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