contrib/chg/chg.1
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:19:33 -0400
changeset 31592 c5d924e5dfdb
parent 28454 8062869860b8
child 46799 283828850c56
permissions -rw-r--r--
pager: fix the invocation of `more` on Windows After 9335dc6b2a9c, with 'shell' being (mostly) set to False, invoking `more` no longer worked. Instead, a warning was printed and the pager was disabled. Invoking `more.com` works. Since a user may have configured 'pager.pager=more', do this substitution at the end. Surprisingly, `more` does allow for arguments, so those are preserved. This also allows `more` to work in MSYS. Setting 'shell=False' runs the executable via CreateProcess(), which has rather wonky rules for resolving an executable without an extension [1]. Resolving to *.com is not among them. Since 'shell=True' yields a cryptic error for a bad $PAGER, and a *.exe program will work without specifying the extension, sticking with current 'shell=False' seems like the right thing to do. I don't think there are any other *.com pagers out there, so this one special case seems OK. If somebody wants to do something crazy that requires cmd.exe, I was able to get normal paged output with 'pager.pager="cmd.exe /c more"'. I assume you can replace `more` with *.bat, *.vbs or various other creatures listed in $PATHEXT. [1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682425(v=vs.85).aspx

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.SH NAME
chg \- a fast client for Mercurial command server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chg
.IR command " [" options "] [" arguments "]..."
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B chg
command is the wrapper for
.B hg
command.
It uses the Mercurial command server to reduce start-up overhead.
.SH OPTIONS
This program accepts the same command line syntax as the
.B hg
command. Additionally it accepts the following options.
.TP
.B \-\-kill\-chg\-daemon
Terminate the background command servers.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR hg (1),
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org>.