hgext/pager.py

# pager.py - display output using a pager
#
# Copyright 2008 David Soria Parra <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
#
# To load the extension, add it to your .hgrc file:
#
#   [extension]
#   pager =
#
# Run "hg help pager" to get info on configuration.

'''browse command output with an external pager

To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::

  [pager]
  pager = LESS='FSRX' less

If no pager is set, the pager extensions uses the environment variable
$PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, no pager is used.

If you notice "BROKEN PIPE" error messages, you can disable them by
setting::

  [pager]
  quiet = True

You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
pager.ignore list::

  [pager]
  ignore = version, help, update

You can also enable the pager only for certain commands using
pager.attend. Below is the default list of commands to be paged::

  [pager]
  attend = annotate, cat, diff, export, glog, log, qdiff

Setting pager.attend to an empty value will cause all commands to be
paged.

If pager.attend is present, pager.ignore will be ignored.

To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have
to specify them in the global .hgrc
'''

import sys, os, signal
from mercurial import dispatch, util, extensions

def uisetup(ui):
    def pagecmd(orig, ui, options, cmd, cmdfunc):
        p = ui.config("pager", "pager", os.environ.get("PAGER"))
        if p and sys.stdout.isatty() and '--debugger' not in sys.argv:
            attend = ui.configlist('pager', 'attend', attended)
            if (cmd in attend or
                (cmd not in ui.configlist('pager', 'ignore') and not attend)):
                ui.setconfig('ui', 'interactive', False)
                sys.stderr = sys.stdout = util.popen(p, "wb")
                if ui.configbool('pager', 'quiet'):
                    signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)
        return orig(ui, options, cmd, cmdfunc)

    extensions.wrapfunction(dispatch, '_runcommand', pagecmd)

attended = ['annotate', 'cat', 'diff', 'export', 'glog', 'log', 'qdiff']