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Subject: Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!
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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