From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:02:33 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!
Message-ID: <7viqpijw92.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <8763lixyps.fsf_-_@jidanni.org>

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> I mean here I am in emacs, and
>
> -*- mode: compilation; default-directory: "...coreutils/" -*-
> Compilation started at Thu Dec 18 03:15:14
> git-diff
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional^M
> ^M-  (press RETURN)

Any semi-good emacs users (let alone hackers) export PAGER=cat to be used
in compilation mode (and possibly shell mode), so this is not a problem in
practice.

I have something like this in my .emacs:

    (setenv "PAGER" "cat")

I suspect (I am just a user not a hacker) this will have bad interaction
with emacs terminal emulation mode, but I do not use the mode, so it is
enough for me.