On 2026-09-24, Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 10:00:47 -0500, David Wright wrote: >> Apt now has it's own environment variable for paging, which I set: >> >> APT_PAGER='less -Riqs' > > Oh, that's nice. And it's in the man page, right? > > hobbit:~$ man apt | grep PAGER > hobbit:~$ > > Oh, of course. Silly me. Why would that be documented.... >
I found something: curty@einstein:~$ apt changelog apt | grep -A 3 -i "pager" WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. * pager: Also set SMK in LESS, fix LV=C to be LV=-c (LP: #2104280) -- Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:52:21 +0100 -- * Introduce git-like automatic pager for apt(8), emulating git behavior. It is enabled for the show, list, search, policy, showsrc commands. The pager can be set using APT_PAGER or PAGER and defaults to `pager` * Add initial pinning information to apt show --full. The fields `APT-Pin`, `APT-Candidate`, and `APT-Release` provide pinning information. It is not yet possible to see multiple sources, -- * don't call pager in non-terminals for changelog (Closes: 755040) -- Michael Vogt <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:09:11 +0200
