On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 9:46:19 AM UTC+5:30, Random832 wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2016, at 00:06, Ben Finney wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano 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).
Also environment variables are a nuisance and an antipattern: http://peterlyons.com/problog/2010/02/environment-variables-considered-harmful -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
