Joseph Brenner writes:
> I thought I'd reproduced the behavior in an xterm, but I was just
> trying again and I don't see it. It does seem that the dumbness of my
> dumb terminal is a factor.
Evidently.
> If I understand the way this works, it could be an even more baffling
> behavior if I were
Yes, I have a tendency to use emacs sub-shells (and occasionally M-x
sql-postgres)--
I thought I'd reproduced the behavior in an xterm, but I was just
trying again and I don't see it. It does seem that the dumbness of my
dumb terminal is a factor.
If I understand the way this works, it could be
Tom Lane wrote:
> BTW, I realized while testing this that there's still one gap in our
> understanding of what went wrong for you: cases like "SELECT 'hello'"
> should not have tried to use the pager, because that would've produced
> less than a screenful of data
At some point emacs was m
Joseph Brenner writes:
> Well, my take would be that if you've taken the trouble to set an
> empty string as the PAGER that means something, and it probably means
> you don't want any pager to be used.
Yeah, on reflection that argument seems pretty persuasive. So I propose
the attached patch.
B
