pager and aliases

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Feb 4 15:19:53 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 09:47 -0500, Harvey Chapman wrote:
> Is the pager extension supposed to be introspective of aliases? I noticed that the show alias below is not paged. Should it be? If I explicitly add show to pager.attend, it works. 
> 
>     [pager]
>     pager = less -FRSX
>     attend = log
> 
>     [alias]
>     show = log --color=always -pr
>
> I noticed that the show alias is not paged. Should it be?

Nope. If not by design, then by long-standing convention.

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