#12058: Mercurial should not enable pager by default
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_info
Priority: blocker | Milestone: sage-4.8
Component: packages | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Changes (by kini):
* status: new => needs_info
Comment:
Please explain what is very bad about this. Any problems caused by the
pager extension being enabled in `$SAGE_LOCAL/etc/mercurial/hgrc` would
equally be caused by the pager extension being enabled in `$HOME/.hgrc`,
which you will agree is not under our control. Furthermore we do not
actually set a pager, so by default the pager extension doesn't even do
anything, other than enable the command line option `--pager=`. Even if we
did set a pager, it is set to only apply to the commands `annotate`,
`cat`, `diff`, `log`, `glog`, and `qdiff`. I question why one would need
to use these in a script in the first place, as they are by nature
interactive commands. And even if for some reason you must use them, you
can always run them with `--pager=off` (and indeed you should do this
anyway).
This was introduced by #11121, not #10594 - please see the comments there
for more discussion about this. See also #11142.
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