> Hi Brian, I must be missing the point of --action=cat.  Its name
> seems to imply non-interactive stdout, but it will still run
> X-based viewers and needsterminal viewers.  The latter seems
> especially strange since the user probably doesn't want an
> interactive curses viewer if they used --action=cat to avoid the
> pager.
>

I don't mind changing it to ignore X viewers or needsterminal viewers, but
those that can be the case even when "copiousoutput" is not specified.


>
> How did you feel I was trying to shoe-horn extra functionality?
>

--action=filter adds a new type of functionality.  Filtering is not
necessarily the same as viewing.

 Brian
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