On Sun, 1 May 2016 05:28 pm, c...@zip.com.au wrote: > On 01May2016 16:44, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>So you expect the environment variable to say which of multiple pagers >>you might want, but only when you already want a pager. Okay. How is >>an app supposed to know whether or not to use a pager? How do you >>expect them to mindread? > > I think for several of us, we do not expect the app to mindread. Don't > page for short output! Is there an environment variable to tell the application what you consider "short", or should it read your mind? Personally, I'd rather use a pager for 3 lines than print 30 lines of help text directly to the console, but others may feel differently. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
