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authorFrederic Culot <calcurse@culot.org>2008-02-14 20:07:43 +0000
committerFrederic Culot <calcurse@culot.org>2008-02-14 20:07:43 +0000
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<!--
/*
- * $calcurse: manual_en.html,v 1.13 2008/02/10 11:33:24 culot Exp $
+ * $calcurse: manual_en.html,v 1.14 2008/02/14 20:07:43 culot Exp $
*
* Calcurse - text-based organizer
* Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Frederic Culot
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ well as the way one can contribute to <code>calcurse</code> development.
<ul>
<li><a href="#basics_invocation_commandline">4.1.1 Command line arguments</a></li>
<li><a href="#basics_invocation_variable">4.1.2 Environment variable for i18n</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#basics_invocation_environment">4.1.3 Other environment variables</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#basics_interface">4.2 User interface</a>
<ul>
@@ -356,6 +357,26 @@ All of the commands are documented within an online help system.
could run <code>calcurse</code> using the following command:</p>
<pre>LC_ALL=fr_FR.ISO8859-1 calcurse</pre>
+<h3>4.1.3 Other environment variables<a name="basics_invocation_environment"></a></h3>
+<p>
+ The following environment variables affect the way <code>calcurse</code>
+ operates:</p>
+ <dl>
+ <dt><code>VISUAL</code></dt>
+ <dd>Specifies the external editor to use for writing notes.
+ </dd>
+ <dt><code>EDITOR</code></dt>
+ <dd>If the <code>VISUAL</code> environment variable
+ is not set, then <code>EDITOR</code> will be used as
+ the default external editor. If none of those variables are set,
+ then <code>/usr/bin/vi</code> is used instead.
+ </dd>
+ <dt><code>PAGER</code></dt>
+ <dd>Specifies the default viewer to be used for reading notes.
+ If this variable is not set, then <code>/usr/bin/less</code> is used.
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+
<h2>4.2 User interface<a name="basics_interface"></a></h2>
<h3>4.2.1 Non-interactive mode<a name="basics_interface_noninteractive"></a></h3>
<p>
@@ -491,11 +512,17 @@ All of the commands are documented within an online help system.
directory the first time <code>calcurse</code> is run :</p>
<pre>
$HOME/.calcurse/
+ |___notes/
|___conf
|___apts
|___todo
</pre>
<dl class="compact">
+ <dt><code>notes/</code>:</dt>
+ <dd>this subdirectory contains descriptions of the notes
+ which are attached to appointments, events or todos. One text file is
+ created per note, whose name is built using mkstemp(3) and should be
+ unique, but with no relation with the corresponding item's description.</dd>
<dt><code>conf</code>:</dt>
<dd>this file contains the user configuration</dd>
<dt><code>apts</code>:</dt>
@@ -982,7 +1009,7 @@ msgid ""
<div class="footer">
Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Culot<br>
- Calcurse version 2.0 - Last change: February 06, 2008<br>
+ Calcurse version 2.0 - Last change: February 13, 2008<br>
</div>
</div>