[ale] Weird stuff in my environment

[Keith Hopkin]

Jeff Dilcher wrote:
> 
> I used the "set" command, to check an evironment variable,
> and had some weird stuff tacked on the end that I have never
> seen before.  Can anyone tell me what it is, and why it is
> part of my environment?  Things appear to start getting
> weird after the USERNAME:
> 
> On a related note (and why I was checking this to begin with),
> what is the best way to set the default editor to pico in
> RedHat linux 6.0?
> 
> Thanks much!!!

  1) try setting the environment variable EDITOR=path_to_pico (.bashrc /
.dtprofile / .profile as appropriate)

  2) the garbage in your environment looks just like shell functions. 
My GUESS is that you were running Midnight Commander (since that is one
of the functions seen) and it aborted and/or didn't clean up after
itself.