[darcs-users] darcs-2 help behavior

[John Clayton]

Just installed darcs 2.1 and now I get this on quitting each  
invocation of darcs help command_name:

Command not found:
    ["less -X"]

In my environment I have PAGER='less -X' because I like to leave stuff  
on the screen for reference. Obviously this is not interacting well  
with darcs' use of less. Does anyone know a way to fix this?  I saw  
the solution below where darcs was aliased to set the PAGER var to  
'cat' explicitly each time, which got rid of the error. I am wondering  
though does anyone know what's triggering this error specifically when  
i 'quit' the darcs pager and is there something I could do to fix just  
that?




On Oct 11, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Dan Pascu wrote:

> Trent W. Buck wrote:
>> Dan Pascu <dan at ag-projects.com> writes:
>>
>>> I'm not against such a feature. I'm against the fact that is enabled
>>> by default, in such a way that it's next to impossible to disabled  
>>> it
>>> without affecting some other part of darcs or the other  
>>> applications.
>>>
>>> A --pager option to the help command would solve this nicely. It
>>> should default to off, so the old behavior is possible. At the same
>>> time anyone who wants a pager by default can add to ~/.darcs/ 
>>> defaults
>>> a line like
>>>
>>> help pager
>>>
>>
>> Rather I think it should be --paged or --not-paged. To me, --pager
>> implies that it takes an argument -- which pager to use.
>>
>> There's already darcs changes --interactive, which changes darcs  
>> changes
>> to listen to the user rather than just dumping everything to stdout.
>> Perhaps this feature should also be called --interactive?
>>
>>
>
> Any of your proposals are better than mine, though --interactive
> suggests that the user will provide some input, which he is not,  
> except
> if we consider that him pressing the up/down keys to navigate the  
> output
> is input.
>
> -- 
> Dan
>
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