hgext/pager.py

pager: Add a configuration to enable/disable the pager for certain commands

Add the configuration options pager.ignore and pager.attend.
You can disable the pager on certain commands by adding them to the
pager.ignore setting. To whitelist commands, you can add them to pager.attend.
To disable or enable global commands like 'hg version' or 'hg help'
you have to use your global .hgrc. (thanks, Matt Mackall)

# pager.py - display output using a pager
#
# Copyright 2008 David Soria Parra <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
# of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
#
# To load the extension, add it to your .hgrc file:
#
#   [extension]
#   hgext.pager =
#
# To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable:
#
#   [pager]
#   pager = LESS='FSRX' less
#
# If no pager is set, the pager extensions uses the environment
# variable $PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, no pager
# is used.
#
# If you notice "BROKEN PIPE" error messages, you can disable them
# by setting:
#
#   [pager]
#   quiet = True
#
# You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
# pager.ignore list:
#
#   [pager]
#   ignore = version, help, update
#
# You can also enable the pager only for certain commands using pager.attend:
#
#   [pager]
#   attend = log
#
# If pager.attend is present, pager.ignore will be ignored.
#
# To ignore global commands like 'hg version' or 'hg help', you have to specify them
# in the global .hgrc

import sys, os, signal
from mercurial import dispatch

def uisetup(ui):
    def pagecmd(ui, options, cmd, cmdfunc):
        p = ui.config("pager", "pager", os.environ.get("PAGER"))
        if p and sys.stdout.isatty():
            attend = ui.configlist('pager', 'attend')
            if (cmd in attend or
                (cmd not in ui.configlist('pager', 'ignore') and not attend)):
                sys.stderr = sys.stdout = os.popen(p, "wb")
                if ui.configbool('pager', 'quiet'):
                    signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)
        return oldrun(ui, options, cmd, cmdfunc)

    oldrun = dispatch._runcommand
    dispatch._runcommand = pagecmd