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help: clarify the choice of pager...
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1 1 Some Mercurial commands can produce a lot of output, and Mercurial will
2 2 attempt to use a pager to make those commands more pleasant.
3 3
4 4 To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::
5 5
6 6 [pager]
7 7 pager = less -FRX
8 8
9 If no pager is set, Mercurial uses the environment variable
10 $PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, a default pager
11 will be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.
9 If no pager is set in the user or repository configuration, Mercurial uses the
10 environment variable $PAGER. If $PAGER is not set, pager.pager from the default
11 or system configuration is used. If none of these are set, a default pager will
12 be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.
12 13
13 14 .. container:: windows
14 15
15 16 On Windows, `more` is not color aware, so using it effectively disables color.
16 17 MSYS and Cygwin shells provide `less` as a pager, which can be configured to
17 18 support ANSI color codes. See :hg:`help config.color.pagermode` to configure
18 19 the color mode when invoking a pager.
19 20
20 21 You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
21 22 pager.ignore list::
22 23
23 24 [pager]
24 25 ignore = version, help, update
25 26
26 27 To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have
27 28 to specify them in your user configuration file.
28 29
29 30 To control whether the pager is used at all for an individual command,
30 31 you can use --pager=<value>:
31 32
32 33 - use as needed: `auto`.
33 34 - require the pager: `yes` or `on`.
34 35 - suppress the pager: `no` or `off` (any unrecognized value
35 36 will also work).
36 37
37 38 To globally turn off all attempts to use a pager, set::
38 39
39 40 [ui]
40 41 paginate = never
41 42
42 43 which will prevent the pager from running.
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