From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:01:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] pager: do not fork a pager if environment variable PAGER is set to NONE
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0604160357460.31461@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtdqef6u.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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