Why isn't pagination enabled by default for hg log? [was - Re: | less or more don't display colors]

[David Demelier]

Le 04/02/2016 13:45, Jaikiran Pai a écrit :
> One thing I have always wondered is why isn't pagination enabled by 
> default (i.e. out of the box hg installation) in mercurial. For any 
> real reasonable sized project, the logs are going to span more than a 
> page. Git for example has pagination enabled by default for logs (I 
> don't mean to make it a git vs hg thing).
>

"Git has" is not a valid argument.

> I understand there are ways to setup aliases/configs etc but it isn't 
> always feasible to do that. For example, given the nature of my work, 
> most of the times, I have to ssh into various systems and browse the 
> mercurial repos on those systems. I can't expect those aliases/configs 
> to be setup there to be able to get a nice paginated output from hg 
> log. I also realize that I can always do "hg log | less" to get 
> pagination, but I'm curious why this isn't a default out of the box 
> feature. Is there something that prevents it from being implemented as 
> an enhancement in future releases?
>

I hope no, I just hate when a pager is started by default. To be able to 
setup it why not, but I just do not want this to be enabled by default.

Regards,

-- 
David Demelier

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