From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should "git help" respect the 'pager' setting?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 19:05:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqhahko0ub.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=RUy6=4k9uGpy2efdL8DhOnNO52rHZWSmHP3C=2a4SUw@mail.gmail.com> (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Thu, 30 May 2013 22:26:36 +0530")
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> It just needs to set $PAGER or $MANPAGER before the exec(), no?
Yes, that should do the same as "man -P".
> I would argue that it should do this. $GIT_PAGER works everywhere
> else, but obviously man has no knowledge about it.
I find it a bit weird that Git sets the configuration for external
commands, but it may make sense. No strong opinion here.
>> If you're an Emacs user, you can read about man.viewer and set it to
>> woman, or set PAGER=cat when inside Emacs.
>
> I just learnt about man.viewer. There's a small problem with it
> though: why is there no option for Emacs man corresponding to Emacs
> woman?
I guess because no one implemented it ;-).
>> I personally run M-x git-foo RET, and never run "git help".
>
> M-x man git-foo RET, you mean?
Yes, sorry.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-30 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-30 16:33 Should "git help" respect the 'pager' setting? Michael Campbell
2013-05-30 16:42 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-05-30 16:56 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 17:05 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2013-05-30 17:08 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 17:14 ` John Keeping
2013-06-02 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
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