On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 12:37:45PM +0000, Julian Foad wrote: > A pager for all commands when producing more than a screenful of output -- > fine.
For this requirement, we need to count newlines and compare the result to the terminal window's height, so we can make a decision to launch a pager. I've got this working for svn_cmdline_fputs(). The only issue is that it also needs tweaks for other functions wrting to stdout, such as svn_stream_for_stdout(). Another issue is that some people (e.g. Ben) want to use pagers for more than just paging, e.g. colorization. In that case we always want to use the pager right away. This could be made configurable... (use-pager=[auto|always]) > Good behaviour, but don't implement it in Subversion, implement it in the > pager! For this requirement, we must always launch the pager upfront, so the pager can count the lines and decide whether to quit itself. I don't see a way to comply with both of these requirements of yours at the same time. Otherwise I agree with the points you've made, thanks!
