From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:55:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <494F47E1.8070105@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo3aggyjmy.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
Miles Bader schrieb:
> Just (setenv "PAGER" "cat") in .emacs.
>
> [I actually have it set to /bin/cat, not sure if that's meaningful or not.]
No, really, you should set it to plain "cat": As a special case git
recognizes this token and does not run any pager. If you set it to
"/bin/cat" it does run a pager, namely /bin/cat.
-- Hannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-22 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-16 0:21 git-diff should not fire up $PAGER if there is no diff jidanni
2008-12-16 0:56 ` Jeff King
2008-12-16 6:35 ` Stefan Karpinski
2008-12-16 7:44 ` Jeff King
2008-12-16 22:43 ` Stefan Karpinski
2008-12-17 21:45 ` git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period! jidanni
2008-12-17 22:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-17 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-22 3:28 ` Miles Bader
2008-12-18 3:31 ` Jeff King
2008-12-22 3:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-12-22 7:55 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2008-12-22 8:30 ` Junio C Hamano
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-18 2:18 Mike Coleman
2008-12-18 2:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-12-18 3:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
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