[darcs-users] darcs-2 help behavior

[Trent W. Buck]

John Clayton <john at fivesquaresoftware.com> writes:

> 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.

Use PAGER=less LESS=X.

> Obviously this is not interacting well with darcs' use of less. Does anyone
> know a way to fix this?

If convention is actually to allow PAGER to contain arguments, extend
Darcs to apply something like words :: String -> [String] to $PAGER
before executing it.

PS: I hate your quoting style (top posting, no trimming, spaces instead
of >'s, blank line after every line).