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Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 22, 2008, 08:30 UTC
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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
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> 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.
But that would not hurt ;-).

On the other hand, using PAGER=cat or PAGER=/bin/cat is the right thing to do in compilation and shell modes in Emacs, regardless of your use of git.

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Message 13 of 13 in “git-diff should not fire up $PAGER if there is no diff”
  1. jidanni@jidanni.orgDec 16, 2008
  2. Jeff KingDec 16, 2008
  3. Stefan KarpinskiDec 16, 2008
  4. Jeff KingDec 16, 2008
  5. Stefan KarpinskiDec 16, 2008
  6. git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!jidanni@jidanni.org, Dec 17, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 17, 2008
  8. Linus TorvaldsDec 17, 2008
  9. Miles BaderDec 22, 2008
  10. Jeff KingDec 18, 2008
  11. Miles BaderDec 22, 2008
  12. Johannes SixtDec 22, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 22, 2008

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