pager: exec pager using /bin/sh -c
This mimics the behavior of popen() and ensures setting the pager to something
like "LESS=FSRX less" will work.
--- a/hgext/pager.py Fri May 14 12:57:24 2010 -0500
+++ b/hgext/pager.py Wed May 19 09:54:12 2010 -0500
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
specify them in the global .hgrc
'''
-import sys, os, signal, shlex
+import sys, os, signal, shlex, errno
from mercurial import dispatch, util, extensions
def _runpager(p):
@@ -67,8 +67,15 @@
os.dup2(fdin, sys.stdin.fileno())
os.close(fdin)
os.close(fdout)
- args = shlex.split(p)
- os.execvp(args[0], args)
+ try:
+ os.execvp('/bin/sh', ['/bin/sh', '-c', p])
+ except OSError, e:
+ if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
+ # no /bin/sh, try executing the pager directly
+ args = shlex.split(p)
+ os.execvp(args[0], args)
+ else:
+ raise
def uisetup(ui):
def pagecmd(orig, ui, options, cmd, cmdfunc):