On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just installed darcs 2.1 and now I get this on quitting each >> invocation of darcs help command_name: >> >> Command not found: >> ["less -X"] >> >> In my environment I have PAGER='less -X' because I like to leave stuff >> on the screen for reference.
Similarly, I get: Command not found: ["less "] > > Use PAGER=less LESS=X. It would seem that in my case I have export PAGER='less ' I just changed that to deleted the space. >> Obviously this is not interacting well with darcs' use of less. Does anyone >> know a way to fix this? > > If convention is actually to allow PAGER to contain arguments, extend > Darcs to apply something like words :: String -> [String] to $PAGER > before executing it. It seems quite reasonable to me to allow arguments using words or do white space stripping. Does this have the potential to cause problems? I guess the most obvious downside is that it gives some expectation to users that we'll handle commands appropriately across platforms. What do others think? Thanks, Jason _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
