Issue 2534: darcs whatsnew does not invoke a pager

Title	darcs whatsnew does not invoke a pager
Priority	feature	Status	unknown
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	bfrk
Assigned To		Topics

Created on 2017-04-06.17:09:12 by bfrk, last changed 2017-04-06.17:09:12 by bfrk.

msg19434 (view)

Author: bfrk

Date: 2017-04-06.17:09:11

darcs help environment says: 

DARCS_PAGER and PAGER:
  Darcs will invoke a pager if the output of some command is longer
  than 20 lines. Darcs will use the pager specified by $DARCS_PAGER
  or $PAGER.  If neither are set, `less` will be used.

This should hold for whatsnew, too.

Also, the 'v' key in interactive mode should behave like 'p' (i.e. use
pager) and 'p' can disappear. I know of no use case where you want more
than one page of output to rush through your terminal in one go...

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2017-04-06 17:09:12	bfrk	create

Issue 2534 darcs whatsnew does not invoke a pager