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Re: [RFC/PATCH] pager: do not fork a pager if environment variable PAGER is set to NONE

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 16, 2006, 02:01 UTC
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Hi,
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > This helps debugging tremendously.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> I like what this wants to do.  I am not so sure PAGER=NONE is a
> good convention, however.
I am sure it is not.

One solution would be to introduce yet another command line option "--no-pager", but I find that ugly.

Another solution would be to check if the environment variable NO_PAGER is set.

Wishes?

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. pager: do not fork a pager if environment variable PAGER is set to NONEJohannes Schindelin, Apr 15, 2006
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  3. Johannes SchindelinApr 16, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2006
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