[PATCH 2 of 2] pager: skip running the pager if it's set to 'cat'

Kevin Bullock kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org
Wed Mar 15 23:17:27 EDT 2017


> On Mar 15, 2017, at 21:07, Ryan McElroy <rm at fb.com> wrote:
> 
> On 3/15/17 6:44 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Augie Fackler <augie at google.com>
>> # Date 1489624466 14400
>> #      Wed Mar 15 20:34:26 2017 -0400
>> # Node ID bc0c38ec3f7be807607d4fdf871f344e7079d992
>> # Parent  07d488f16da6e12b225d2827f1020f32c8050a7a
>> pager: skip running the pager if it's set to 'cat'
>> 
>> Avoid useless uses of cat.
> 
> I hate myself a little for being this pedantic... but if 'cat' means something else in a users environment (eg, alias cat="cat -v"), then this would break that behavior.

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