From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:30:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!
Message-ID: <7vfxkgk3wr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <494F47E1.8070105@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> 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.