Re: [PATCH] Document how to tell git to not launch a pager
Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:
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> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
>>
>>> [...] I also wonder why use of a pager is default in git anyway. At
>>> least I find it to be contrary to what I am used to on the Unix command
>>> line.
>>
>> It was evidently liked unilaterally amongst the big whigs in the git
>> community. Me too, I like it (which says nothing about my hair style).
>> Often it annoys me tremendously that all the other programs like make, ls,
>> etc. do not have this nice "-p" flag.
>
> I love it. It's currently playing merry havoc with my Subversion usage
> at work though. I've got so used to git never chucking things off the
> top of the screen that I keep forgetting to run 'svn ... | less'.
>
> Also searching in a console isn't anywhere near as easy.
Is that the reason why users of screen get punished by default?
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David Kastrup