Patch updated

David Soria Parra sn_ at gmx.net
Thu Mar 6 11:25:01 CST 2008


Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> David Soria Parra wrote:
>   
>> i updated the patch, so it only displays the pager when a minimum number
>> of lines is used, and I help now uses the pager.
>>     
>
> This is intrusive and unnecessary.  Pagers like less and more will
> already do the right thing if you feed them less than a page of output.
>
> A smaller patch that lets you pipe stdout and stderr to an external
> program would only be a few lines long, and would be much more sensible.
>
> 	<b
>
>
>   



Okay sounds reasonable. I really like that pager in other version
control systems, but for sure it can be implemented better, but i'm not
a python specialist nor that depth into the mercurial development.


More information about the Mercurial-devel mailing list