On Sat, Apr 30, 2016, at 00:06, Ben Finney wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > > > So they want the PAGER environment variable to specify what pager they > > want... > > > > ...so long as applications don't actually make use of that PAGER > > environment variable to determine the pager they want to use. > > This at least does not baldly misrepresent the position being made :-)
I still don't understand how it's a misrepresentation. They said they don't want stuff (where "stuff" includes pydoc but it's not clear why or where it ends) to automatically use a pager without being requested, and provided absolutely no criteria by which pydoc is special and shouldn't behave the same as git and man do (since the entire reason PAGER=cat is an unacceptable solution is that it "cripples" git and man). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
