Pager extension on Windows

[Brodie Rao]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:10 AM, v <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mads Kiilerich wrote
>>
>> I would have set 'need information from' Eduard-Christian but don't have
>> permissions to do that.
>>
>> FWIW, I don't see an example or an exact description of what the problem
>> is.
>> No windows or pager developer has confirmed that there is a problem (but
>> have also not denied it).
>> I thus don't know if there has been any real progress on the issue.
>>
>
> It's described clearly in the second comment
> (http://bz.selenic.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1677#c2). It looks like the bug was
> originally filed as something else, to the description doesn't match it's
> current title.
>
> There's still a patch on http://codereview.appspot.com/63217, but not being
> a python developer, I can't test or properly submit it myself.

The pager extension works under Windows as of Hg 2.2.2, so that patch
shouldn't be necessary. FWIW, I'm able to use it under cmd.exe with
more.

The issue with the help command not being paged consistently is a
different issue (one that also affects Linux, OS X, etc). When running
"hg --help", internally, Mercurial doesn't invoke the help command in
the same way it would if you did "hg help". The pager extension
doesn't see that a specific command was run, so it doesn't page the
output. I talked with mpm recently about fixing this, and I think he
might have a work-in-progress patch lying around for it.