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pager: use less as a fallback on Unix This seems reasonable choice per discussion, and the default-default of Git. See also the inline-comment for why. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2017-April/097042.html
author Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org>
date Fri, 28 Apr 2017 20:51:14 +0900
parents 88203f26ea57
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6 [pager] 6 [pager]
7 pager = less -FRX 7 pager = less -FRX
8 8
9 If no pager is set, the pager extensions uses the environment variable 9 If no pager is set, the pager extensions uses the environment variable
10 $PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, a default pager 10 $PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, a default pager
11 will be used, typically `more`. 11 will be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.
12 12
13 You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the 13 You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
14 pager.ignore list:: 14 pager.ignore list::
15 15
16 [pager] 16 [pager]