view mercurial/help/pager.txt @ 40494:5e5c8f2a1eb5

branchmap: do not specify changelog as an argument

Since (unfiltered)repo.changelog lookup gets as fast as __dict__ lookup,
there's no point to pass in changelog instance.

  $ hg perfbranchmap --clear-revbranch -R mozilla-central
  ! base
  (orig) wall 20.593091 comb 20.600000 user 20.520000 sys 0.080000 (best of 3)
  (this) wall 20.129126 comb 20.130000 user 20.020000 sys 0.110000 (best of 3)

This backs out most of the changes in 76d4272bd57b and 47c03042cd1d.

Some Mercurial commands can produce a lot of output, and Mercurial will
attempt to use a pager to make those commands more pleasant.

To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::

  [pager]
  pager = less -FRX

If no pager is set in the user or repository configuration, Mercurial uses the
environment variable $PAGER. If $PAGER is not set, pager.pager from the default
or system configuration is used. If none of these are set, a default pager will
be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.

.. container:: windows

  On Windows, `more` is not color aware, so using it effectively disables color.
  MSYS and Cygwin shells provide `less` as a pager, which can be configured to
  support ANSI color codes.  See :hg:`help config.color.pagermode` to configure
  the color mode when invoking a pager.

You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
pager.ignore list::

  [pager]
  ignore = version, help, update

To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have
to specify them in your user configuration file.

To control whether the pager is used at all for an individual command,
you can use --pager=<value>:

  - use as needed: `auto`.
  - require the pager: `yes` or `on`.
  - suppress the pager: `no` or `off` (any unrecognized value
    will also work).

To globally turn off all attempts to use a pager, set::

  [ui]
  paginate = never

which will prevent the pager from running.