[darcs-users] darcs-2 help behavior

[Dan Pascu]

Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 02:58:07PM +0300, Dan Pascu wrote:
>   
>> When I use darcs --help with darcs 2.x, I noticed that it automatically 
>> pipes output to the pager. I guess this was introduced to allow for an 
>> easier navigation of the help text, however from a usability point of 
>> view this is a setback as it introduces more annoyances than it helps. 
>>     
> [...]
>   
>> Can someone please enlighten me if there is a way to disable the pager, 
>> or if not could this behavior be revisited and if not reverted, at least 
>> provide a way to disable it?
>>     
>
> Workaround 2: put PAGER=cat or DARCS_PAGER=cat into your environment.
>   

Thanks for the DARCS_PAGER hint. This completely eliminates the need for 
the bash alias workaround I came up in the previous post (PAGER=cat is 
not acceptable as a global environment value as it may negatively impact 
other applications that need a pager).

-- 
Dan