mercurial/help/pager.txt
author Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org>
Wed, 05 Apr 2017 21:27:44 +0900
changeset 32034 579bbcb4322b
parent 31062 88203f26ea57
child 32078 bf5e13e38390
permissions -rw-r--r--
templatekw: eliminate unnecessary temporary variable 'names' from _showlist() Replace 'names' with the optional argument 'plural'.

Some Mercurial commands 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, the pager extensions uses the environment variable
$PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, a default pager
will be used, typically `more`.

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::

  [pager]
  enable = false

which will prevent the pager from running.