[issue8637] Add PYDOCPAGER envvar to specify pager for pydoc

Justin Bronder added the comment: > Éric Araujo added the comment: > > Excuse me if I was unclear: I wasn’t asking for program names but for a > definition of “don’t support” or description of problematic behavior. In headers with vimpager ^H is not rendered(?) correctly. For instance, 'pyd

[issue8637] Add PYDOCPAGER envvar to specify pager for pydoc

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Reusing MANPAGER is practical. Yet another PY* environment variable doesn't seem warranted in this case. Agreed with Alexander's simpler logic proposal in msg105153. -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python tracker

[issue8637] Add PYDOCPAGER envvar to specify pager for pydoc

Éric Araujo added the comment: Excuse me if I was unclear: I wasn’t asking for program names but for a definition of “don’t support” or description of problematic behavior. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue8637] Add PYDOCPAGER envvar to specify pager for pydoc

Justin Bronder added the comment: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: .. > Justin: what exactly is a pager that does not support man pages? vimpager is the one I'm using. For man pages there's vimmanpager. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8637] Add PYDOCPAGER envvar to specify pager for pydoc

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Éric Araujo wrote: .. > Justin: what exactly is a pager that does not support man pages? I may know the answer to this one. A common PAGER setting is "less -rs" which makes less skip whitespace lines and passes through te

[issue8637] Add PYDOCPAGER envvar to specify pager for pydoc

Éric Araujo added the comment: My man(1) also respects MANPAGER (it’s the one from http://man-db.nongnu.org/), but given the lack of a standard, I agree with you. However, I’m reluctant to add another env variable. There are workarounds, for example using a shell alias like “docpy="PAGER=mos