diff mercurial/help/pager.txt @ 32078:bf5e13e38390 stable

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
children a6865b35a10d
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--- a/mercurial/help/pager.txt	Tue Apr 25 22:10:26 2017 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/help/pager.txt	Fri Apr 28 20:51:14 2017 +0900
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 If no pager is set, the pager extensions uses the environment variable
 $PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, a default pager
-will be used, typically `more`.
+will be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.
 
 You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
 pager.ignore list::