On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Benjamin Franksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
+1 I do not expect a program to use pager for help output by default. And no other program I use except for darcs does this. Sure I can reconfigure it. But IMHO the default behavior should be not using pager. I think that is what most users would expect (at least those used to unix console). Regards, Dmitry > > Cheers > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > darcs-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users > _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
