From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:09:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Teach 'git grep' about --open-files-in-pager=[<pager>]
Message-ID: <7v39zm7epf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <m239zmdcz5.fsf@gmail.com>

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

>> and I often run "git grep -n" in that mode..
>
> I always need to pass the '--no-pager' switch: "git --no-pager grep -n"
> since git doesn't detect that its output is sent to a 'dumb' terminal.

Sorry, but as any self-respecting Emacs user would have PAGER set to cat
(and EDITOR set to emacsclient), I thought nobody would need --no-pager
;-)