mercurial/helptext/pager.txt
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Mon, 21 Dec 2020 20:21:46 -0500
changeset 52289 323e3626929a
parent 43632 2e017696181f
permissions -rw-r--r--
sslutil: add support for clients to set TLSv1.3 as the minimum protocol AFAICT, all of the TLS versions are supported by the server without doing any explicit work, and there's only a `devel` config to specify an exact version on the server side. Clients would also use TLSv1.3 if available, but this prevents the server from negotiating down. This also causes "tls1.3" to be listed in `hg debuginstall`, even though it was previously supported (if the Python intepreter supported it- IDK if there's a good way to proactively test for and show future protocols without requiring manual updates like this). The v1.3 tests are nested inside the v1.2 tests for simplicity. The v1.2 blocks already assume v1.0 and v1.1 support, so this seems reasonable for now. If/when the older protocols start getting dropped, this will have to be reworked anyway.

Some Mercurial commands can produce a lot of output, and Mercurial will
attempt to use a pager to make those commands more pleasant.

To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::

  [pager]
  pager = less -FRX

If no pager is set in the user or repository configuration, Mercurial uses the
environment variable $PAGER. If $PAGER is not set, pager.pager from the default
or system configuration is used. If none of these are set, a default pager will
be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.

.. container:: windows

  On Windows, `more` is not color aware, so using it effectively disables color.
  MSYS and Cygwin shells provide `less` as a pager, which can be configured to
  support ANSI color codes.  See :hg:`help config.color.pagermode` to configure
  the color mode when invoking a pager.

You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
pager.ignore list::

  [pager]
  ignore = version, help, update

To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have
to specify them in your user configuration file.

To control whether the pager is used at all for an individual command,
you can use --pager=<value>:

  - use as needed: `auto`.
  - require the pager: `yes` or `on`.
  - suppress the pager: `no` or `off` (any unrecognized value
    will also work).

To globally turn off all attempts to use a pager, set::

  [ui]
  paginate = never

which will prevent the pager from running.