From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:07:06 GMT
Subject: Re: emacs and git...
Message-ID: <7vtzwcqqf9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0703230132j64cf0b94x7c210593f3f31387@mail.gmail.com>

"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.