From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>, jidanni@jidanni.org, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:30:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfxkgk3wr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494F47E1.8070105@viscovery.net> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:55:13 +0100")
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
> 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.
But that would not hurt ;-).
On the other hand, using PAGER=cat or PAGER=/bin/cat is the right thing to
do in compilation and shell modes in Emacs, regardless of your use of git.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-22 8:39 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
2008-12-22 8:30 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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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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