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

[Martin Geisler]

David Soria Parra <sn_ at gmx.net> writes:

> This time I'll changed also hgrc to document two new variables:
> ui.pager can be used to override the default pager command and
> ui.usepager can be used to disable the use of the pager at all, but it
> defaults to True.

I'm sorry, but I think this is a bad idea -- if I want a pager, then
I'll run it myself when needed. I want to decide on a case by case
basis. Sometimes I want to run things through "colordiff.pl | less -R",
sometimes I might want to run things through "tee", and sometimes I just
want to use the scrollback buffer in my terminal.

I can see how this could be a little interesting for a platform where
there is no sane pager available by default. Linux has all the pagers I
need, but what about Windows?

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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