Dear, On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 08:12, Jan Synacek <jsyna...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 11:38 AM zimoun <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 10:35, Jan Synacek <jsyna...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > Seriously? Are you seriously forcing your users to either run emacs (or at >> > least >> > to set the env variable) or use pipes to get the entire search result? >> >> It is "known" that Guix should respect the PAGER variable [1,2] and it >> is already a feature request [3]. >> > Why do you want to make things complicated? What's wrong with *just showing > the entire output*? And let users decide if they want to use a pager, recsel, > emacs or redirect the output somewhere else. > > I mean you run a command and the command shows its output. It makes me kind > of sad that there even has to be a discussion about this. > >> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-02/msg00039.html >> [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00150.html >> [3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00154.html I do not have a strong opinion. Personally, I do not find the default behaviour really handy and I (almost) always pipe with 'recsel -C -P name' because I do not find handy neither to display all the package fields by default. Well, taste and colour. :-) And my answer was just to point you that it is not an arbitrary choice. And all choices can be discussed. ;-) All the best, simon
