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Re: emacs and git...

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Mar 23, 2007, 09:07 UTC
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"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
> Can't git make 'cat' the default pager when run on a dumb terminal ?
IIRC, `more` works on a dumb terminal.

But using PAGER=cat is a longstanding and widely used trick among Emacs old timers, predating the EDITOR=emacsclient, which is even nicer. I would highly recommend it. These two environment variables make running *everything* in compilation mode (or shell buffer) so much nicer than otherwise.

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