Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> As you very well put it ("I'd like"), this is a personal preference, not
>> necessarily a good user interface design choice.
>
> For background to this decision, see
> * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/2008-January/007011.html
> * http://bugs.darcs.net/issue896
>
> I would welcome any more background information behind this discussion.
> I had the impression that more people specifically asked for this
> behaviour before we implemented it. Is this something people feel
> strongly enough about to back out?
The current implementation is wrong; it assumes the terminal height is
always 25 characters. I advocate either backing it out, or asking
terminfo what the current terminal height is and only invoking a pager
when it is useful to do so.
> This is a question of picking the right defaults [...]
I agree. However, note that when done *CORRECTLY* an implicit pager
will not invoke a pager for less than a screenful of output. I guess
this heuristic is available to less(1) users with
darcs foo --help | less -F
My *personal* preference is that this should be the default, but I don't
feel strongly about it.
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