On 11/9/06, Marnix Klooster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about piping into 'less -R' if the hunk is longer than X lines?
> Where X might be specified either directly or as a multiple of $LINES?
Or use the industry standard *grin* : pipe through $PAGER, defaulting to
the "more" binary in your path. (Windows?) And perhaps a separate
variable DARCS_PAGER_LINES to specify the cut-off X: if the patch is
less than X lines, don't call $PAGER.
I think the git people have had a similar discussion on their mailing
list a long time ago; search the git mailing list.
I've always wanted to have something like this in darcs. It can prove
very useful when reviewing very long swaths of changes and you're on a
VT instead of an XTerm where you have the luxury of having a
scrollbar.
The behavior controlled by DARCS_PAGER_LINES can be implemented by
using LINES since darcs already uses ncurses(?). LINES is set by
initscr() so you can use that to automatically determine if a pager is
needed for the patch. Of course, this breaks if your darcs was built
--without-curses.
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