pager: do not try to run an empty pager command
If pagercmd is explicitly set to '', the pager process would exit silently
and the output would be lost. We'd better disable the pager in such case.
--- a/mercurial/ui.py Thu Feb 23 21:20:26 2017 +0900
+++ b/mercurial/ui.py Thu Feb 23 21:27:25 2017 +0900
@@ -869,7 +869,6 @@
# interactive, the user didn't say HGPLAIN or
# HGPLAINEXCEPT=pager, and the user didn't specify --debug.
return
- self.debug('starting pager for command %r\n' % command)
# TODO: add a "system defaults" config section so this default
# of more(1) can be easily replaced with a global
@@ -879,6 +878,10 @@
# default editor command similar treatment.
envpager = encoding.environ.get('PAGER', 'more')
pagercmd = self.config('pager', 'pager', envpager)
+ if not pagercmd:
+ return
+
+ self.debug('starting pager for command %r\n' % command)
self.pageractive = True
# Preserve the formatted-ness of the UI. This is important
# because we mess with stdout, which might confuse
--- a/tests/test-pager.t Thu Feb 23 21:20:26 2017 +0900
+++ b/tests/test-pager.t Thu Feb 23 21:27:25 2017 +0900
@@ -89,6 +89,12 @@
$ hg log -l1 -q --config ui.formatted=False
10:46106edeeb38
+Pager should be disabled if pager.pager is empty (otherwise the output would
+be silently lost.)
+
+ $ hg log -l1 -q --config pager.pager=
+ 10:46106edeeb38
+
Pager with color enabled allows colors to come through by default,
even though stdout is no longer a tty.
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH <<EOF