[PATCH] Log, annotate and diff use an environment pager if available

[Frank Kingswood]

Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 06.03.2008 13:37, David Soria Parra wrote:
>> fixed
> 
> not yet...
> 
>> +    def write(self, w):
>> +        self.buffer.extend(w.splitlines())
>> +        if len(self.buffer) >= self.min_lines and not self.buffer_written:
>> +            # we reached the limit and not yet written the buffer
>> +            self.buffer_written = True
>> +            if self.getpager() and not self.proc:
>> +                # we now that we need a process only if
>> +                # we already reach the min_lines limit
> 

There is another thread called "Patch updated" where I wrote this. 
Copying that message here for reference.

 > That is way too magic for my liking. You can not predict what users
 > want either. I for example like to see output immediately, and am
 > prepared to use scrollback.
 >
 > A simpler method that does not mess with the hg internals is to wrap
 > hg in a bash function, like
 >
 > function hg() {
 >     command hg "$@" | crufty_pager
 > }
 >
 > where crufty_pager is a script that reads its input and if it finds
 > more than 25 lines fires up $PAGER, and otherwise just writes them
 > to stdout.

If this automagic pager gets put in hg then it should be configurable 
and turn-offable.

Frank