On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 8:06:46 AM UTC+5:30, Random832 wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016, at 22:27, Rustom Mody wrote: > > On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 7:47:11 AM UTC+5:30, Random832 wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016, at 22:09, Ethan Furman wrote: > > > > So I have to cripple my shell to get pydoc help to work nicely? Neat! > > > > Actually, not so much. :( > > > > > > If you don't want a pager with pydoc, when exactly do you want it? > > > > - I start a python interpreter > > - ... Am pottering around for a while > > - ... Need help on something... > > [So with Steven's solution of PAGER=cat Ive to restart python!! > > Leaving that aside...] > > - ... help can do one of two valid things [remember I am on a modern > > windowing > > system] > > -- start help inline, inband (cat) > > -- start help out of band (browser, yelp, etc ie some other app) > > > > Instead it does some ½-assed fall-between-the-stools of both > > That doesn't answer the question of why, if you (Well, Ethan, but you're > taking the same position here) hate pagers so much, why you can't just > set PAGER=cat in your profile once, now, and never see one again. How > does this "cripple your shell"; if you hate pagers so much why do you > want man or git to use one any more than pydoc?
I dont get whats so hard to get in this: When we need pagers we know where to get them When we dont, please dont thump them on us I dont know that anyone has taken the "I-HATE-pagers' view so much as "Let me get them when I want them" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
