22 Jun
2020
22 Jun
'20
10:24 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 05:35:28PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
In a related vein what annoys me are so-called modern programs like
"git", "hg", and others which default to always piping their output
through $PAGER, along with such things as colour decorations enabled,
but when you tack on "|$PAGER" to their command-line then they turn off
the decorations! They cause me to have to undo decades of finger
memory.
Well, for further fun, one could always export GIT_PAGER=cat,
then git will not use a pager for those commands, recognising that
'cat' is a no-op in such cases. :-)
DF