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Augie Fackler
pager: move most help to a new help topic and deprecate extension
r31061 Some Mercurial commands produce a lot of output, and Mercurial will
attempt to use a pager to make those commands more pleasant.
To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::
[pager]
pager = less -FRX
FUJIWARA Katsunori
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r32082 If no pager is set, Mercurial uses the environment variable
Augie Fackler
pager: move most help to a new help topic and deprecate extension
r31061 $PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, a default pager
Yuya Nishihara
pager: use less as a fallback on Unix...
r32078 will be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.
Augie Fackler
pager: move most help to a new help topic and deprecate extension
r31061
You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
pager.ignore list::
[pager]
ignore = version, help, update
To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have
to specify them in your user configuration file.
To control whether the pager is used at all for an individual command,
FUJIWARA Katsunori
help: apply bulk fixes for indentation and literal blocking issues...
r32085 you can use --pager=<value>:
Augie Fackler
pager: move most help to a new help topic and deprecate extension
r31061
- use as needed: `auto`.
- require the pager: `yes` or `on`.
- suppress the pager: `no` or `off` (any unrecognized value
FUJIWARA Katsunori
help: apply bulk fixes for indentation and literal blocking issues...
r32085 will also work).
Augie Fackler
pager: add a config knob to just globally turn off the pager
r31062
To globally turn off all attempts to use a pager, set::
[pager]
enable = false
which will prevent the pager from running.