[Bug 5580] New: ui.paginate=never (or False) disables --pager=yes

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https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5580

            Bug ID: 5580
           Summary: ui.paginate=never (or False) disables --pager=yes
           Product: Mercurial
           Version: 4.2
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: feature
          Priority: wish
         Component: pager
          Assignee: bugzilla at mercurial-scm.org
          Reporter: hg at pewpew.net
                CC: mercurial-devel at mercurial-scm.org

I'm sure there are other hgrc options that can't be overridden with a flag, but
this one is a bit awkward, IMHO.

$ cat hgrc
[ui]
paginate=False

$ HGRCPATH=hgrc hg help config --pager=yes
<all contents, no pager>

$ HGRCPATH=hgrc hg version -v
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 4.2+23-387a76cac28e)
(see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information)

Copyright (C) 2005-2017 Matt Mackall and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Enabled extensions:



My real desire can be expressed as follows: "My site admins have enabled pager
by default; I do not want this, so I want to disable it by default but was
surprised I couldn't use --pager=yes on the commandline".

I don't *actually* do that often, though, and would probably just do `| less`
instead of a command-specific flag, so responding "Working as Intended, just do
`| less` yourself if you've disabled the pager" is an OK response imho,
especially since I (personally) never use --pager=auto.

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