From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should "git help" respect the 'pager' setting?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 18:42:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqtxlko1vn.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKtB=OCyoN8ECYiAzXc3UiCrLfWn7Pq7_5CSQUjJ2dhbzQ2RsQ@mail.gmail.com> (Michael Campbell's message of "Thu, 30 May 2013 12:33:01 -0400")
Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@gmail.com> writes:
> I have my global git config pager set to 'cat', but when I do a "git
> help <command>", it still uses a pager. This is especially irksome in
> emacs shell buffers, where I am most of the time. I know I can do a
> M-x man -> git-<whatever>, but wondered if this was a bug or user
> error. ("git --no-pager help <command>" does the same.)
"git help foo" just calls "man git-foo" by default, so what happens is
the same as if you called "man git-foo" by hand. Git does not have
much control over what man will do, it could probably call "man -P
$pager" when the Git pager is set, but I'd find it a bit weird.
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 personally run M-x git-foo RET, and never run "git help".
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-30 16:42 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 [this message]
2013-05-30 16:56 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-05-30 17:05 ` Matthieu Moy
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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