Re: Piping copious output to PAGER automatically.

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 10:08, Max Bowsher wrote:
> David Wilson wrote:
> > If the condition succeeds, then use popen(3) (or the APR equivalent) to
> > pipe our copious output to the user's preferred PAGER instead of
> > directly to their screen.
>
> After being initially shocked by the violation of Unix tradition, I
> eventually came to think that *if* the user has set PAGER, then they
> probably would like this feature.

Setting PAGER just lets you choose *which* pager you want to use, for
programs that use one; it's not a license for arbitrary programs to
start piping things to PAGER.

-Peter-

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Received on Sun Sep 5 19:47:57 2004