David Wilson wrote:
> 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.
Ouch.
I've just realized that for this feature to be truly useful for me, it would
need to support different pagers for different svn commands!
log => less - streamy display
diff => vimless - syntax highlighting, not streamy
Umm...
Maybe I'm better off using explicit pipes...
Max.
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Received on Mon Sep 6 00:36:34 2004