Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>> Isn’t it considered best practise to set PAGER=cat when using Emacs as a >> shell? That’s what I do to show man pages (when I’m not using M-x >> woman) or to have “git log” do the right thing. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > env PAGER=cat guix search emacs > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > or > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > export PAGER=cat > guix search emacs > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > still displays the hint for me in M-x shell or Eshell. That’s because Guix doesn’t yet respect the PAGER variable. But it should. Shortly after the hint was introduced and the display was truncated by default there was a discussion about making Guix respect PAGER and only display the hint when it wasn’t set. -- Ricardo
