From: David Kastrup Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:01:57 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document how to tell git to not launch a pager Message-ID: <86ir8gbo0a.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> In-Reply-To: Julian Phillips writes: > 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? -- David Kastrup