Trent W. Buck wrote: > Dan Pascu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> With the new behavior, after I quit the pager, the help text is gone. > > That depends on your terminal configuration. I think you can tweak it > somewhere in terminfo/termcap, but I don't know exactly where. > > You can get the old behaviour with a UUOC: > > darcs --help | cat > > By changing the pager, you can make this the default. For example: > > if [[ $TERM = dumb || $INSIDE_EMACS ]] > then export PAGER=cat > fi > >> IMO, from a usability point of view this is more cumbersome and >> annoying, with no extra added benefit. > > I disagree. Indeed, when ANY command's output exceeds the terminal's > height, I'd like the output to be implicitly paged. Until I learn how > to configure that generically in bash, I welcome it on a per-app basis.
My 2 cents: It is nice if to offer paging with a --pager switch (configurable to be turned on per default if you like) but I agree with Dan that it is a bad idea to force it on users who might be happy with using the scroll bar on their terminal (-window). It is unacceptable to demand permanent re-configuration of a general purpose paging tool just to avoid this behaviour for darcs (i.e. setting LESS=whatever) and I don't think we should expect users to be experts in tweaking shell or terminal settings. Cheers Ben _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
