On Sat, Apr 30, 2016, at 22:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > We don't want to use a PAGER variable to specify when we want a pager > and when we don't want a pager. If we want a pager we append "| less" > to the command. If we don't want a pager, we don't append that to the > command.
Setting PAGER=cat - permanently, in your profile, and never ever changing it - gives this result, yet it's described by some people here as "So I have to cripple my shell [...]?" What is crippled? Evidently you're not "we", since this "crippled" state of affairs seems to be a perfectly acceptable one to you. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list