From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:55:13 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!
Message-ID: <494F47E1.8070105@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <buo3aggyjmy.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>

Miles Bader schrieb:
> Just (setenv "PAGER" "cat") in .emacs.
> 
> [I actually have it set to /bin/cat, not sure if that's meaningful or not.]

No, really, you should set it to plain "cat": As a special case git
recognizes this token and does not run any pager. If you set it to
"/bin/cat" it does run a pager, namely /bin/cat.

-- Hannes