When $PAGER is set to 'less -i', we used to fail because we
assumed the $PAGER is a command and simply exec'ed it.
Try exec first, and then run it through shell if it fails. This
allows even funkier PAGERs like these ;-):
PAGER='sed -e "s/^/`date`: /" | more'
PAGER='contrib/colordiff.perl | less -RS'
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Unless the user has a nonstandard "cat" command that does not
meow like a cat, this should not break anything and would save an
extra pipe.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This skips an extra pipe, and helps debugging tremendously.
[jc: PAGER=cat is a questionable hack and should be done as a separate
patch. ]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This introduces the new function
void setup_pager(void);
to set up output to be written through a pager applocation.
All in preparation for doing the simple scripts in C.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
