Re: Piping copious output to PAGER automatically.

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:47:34AM -0700, Peter S. Housel wrote:

> 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.

That's a fair point, but what of the case where we are more than likely
flooding the user's screen, and here is an obvious and unintrusive way
of preventing that?

What are peoples' thoughts on making it a (default off) option, or one
that can be applied like:

    [miscellany]
    auto-pager = cat diff blame

The latter resolves the issue of which commands to apply the
functionality to.

David.

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