Environment variables: GNOME Data Access 5 manual

## Environment variables

Several environment variables can be used to customize the behaviour of the console tool (added to the general Libgda's environment variables):

- Upon starting, if the `GDA_SQL_CNC` environment variable is defined, the console tool will try to open a connection using its contents as connection string.

- The external editor used by the .e command is determined by the first value present in the `GDA_SQL_EDITOR`, `EDITOR` or `VISUAL` environment variables (in that order), and defaults to "vi" under Unix and "notepad.exe" under Windows.

- The pager used when the data to display is more than one screen is determined by the value of the `PAGER` environment variable and defaults to "more" if none is defined. The paging feature can be completely disabled if the `GDA_NO_PAGER` is defined.

- When the .graph is run, and if the GraphViz's dot is found, the console tool will convert the graph to a PNG file and display it using the external viewer identified by the contents of the `GDA_SQL_VIEWER_PNG` variable if defined (or convert it to a PDF and display it using the external viewer identified by the contents of the `GDA_SQL_VIEWER_PDF` variable if defined).

- The command line history file is defined by the contents of the `GDA_SQL_HISTFILE` environment variable. If its contents is set to "NO_HISTORY" then no history will be kept.