Quoting Gerfried Fuchs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Btw., Martin Krafft came up with a short patch that would mean to not
> have to patch the file:
I hate #ifdef. ;-)
How about a configuration file option? Paged output would be the
default; to disable it create an ldapvirc with something like:
profi
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:24:21AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach David Lichteblau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.18.1439 +0200]:
>> As a user, you can either pipe through a pager if the program does not
>> do that automatically, or you can pipe through cat to avoid the pager
>> for prog
also sprach David Lichteblau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.18.1439 +0200]:
> "Other than man" is pretty broad. That includes "git
> --help". Why is git allowed to use a pager here and ldapvi --help
> is not, when both print documentation that is longer than a page
> of output?
I think git is also
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> This is totally backwards. Unix tools (other than man) don't use
> pagers under any other circumstances than when the user told the
> shell to connect a pager to stdout.
"Other than man" is pretty broad. That includes "git --help".
Why is git allowe
also sprach David Lichteblau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.18.1139 +0200]:
> Only if standard output is a TTY. Otherwise it prints directly to the fd.
>
> Try
> ldapvi --help
> compared to
> ldapvi --help | cat
>
> In what situation do you have a TTY on stdout and cannot run a pager?
This is
Quoting martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> ldapvi's --help output spawns $PAGER. Please don't. It makes it
> difficult to refer to the help output when assembling complex
> command lines.
Only if standard output is a TTY. Otherwise it prints directly to the fd.
Try
ldapvi --help
compared to
Package: ldapvi
Version: 1.6-3
Severity: minor
ldapvi's --help output spawns $PAGER. Please don't. It makes it
difficult to refer to the help output when assembling complex
command lines.
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