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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] config: respect `pager.config` in list/get-mode only
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:25:21 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BPy_D4pg3n+c6eL_W=9eqeA++V4TOhp3PgOo_++YGhVw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad9a12af60cdc6ff747337c4116fe41860f82701.1518365675.git.martin.agren@gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:40 PM, Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> wrote:
> Similar to de121ffe5 (tag: respect `pager.tag` in list-mode only,
> 2017-08-02), use the DELAY_PAGER_CONFIG-mechanism to only respect
> `pager.config` when we are listing or "get"ing config.
>
> Some getters give at most one line of output, but it is much easier to
> document and understand that we page all of --get[-*] and --list, than
> to divide the (current and future) getters into "pages" and "doesn't".

I realize modern pagers like 'less' can automatically exit if the
output is less than a screen. But are we sure it's true for all
pagers? It would be annoying to have a pager waiting for me to exit
when I only want to check one config item out (which prints one line).
Trading one-time convenience at reading the manual with constantly
pressing 'q' does not seem justified.
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-13 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-11 16:40 [PATCH 1/3] t7006: add tests for how git config paginates Martin Ågren
2018-02-11 16:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] config: respect `pager.config` in list/get-mode only Martin Ågren
2018-02-13 10:25   ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2018-02-13 11:19     ` Martin Ågren
2018-02-11 16:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] config: change default of `pager.config` to "on" Martin Ågren
2018-02-12 22:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] t7006: add tests for how git config paginates Junio C Hamano
2018-02-12 22:41   ` Martin Ågren
2018-02-21 18:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Martin Ågren
2018-02-21 18:51   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Martin Ågren
2018-02-21 18:51   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] config: respect `pager.config` in list/get-mode only Martin Ågren
2018-02-21 18:51   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] config: change default of `pager.config` to "on" Martin Ågren
2018-02-21 22:35   ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Re: t7006: add tests for how git config paginates Junio C Hamano

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