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pager: don't run pager if nothing is written to stdout/stderr

This decides when to run the pager based on the first call to
ui.write() and ui.write_err(). This has the side effect of not the
output of subprocesses that write output before hg does.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.