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

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Friday 05 February 2016 01:26 PM, Jim Hague wrote:
> On Friday 05 Feb 2016 08:46:18 Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>> Thanks Matt, really helpful!
>>
>> Thanks for reminding again why this mailing list is considered hostile
>> to user questions.
> Considered by whom, exactly? Those whose hobby is emailing the Linux kernel
> list asking why the kernel isn't written in C++?

I have no such hobby emailing some mailing list asking such questions, 
neither was I referring to such users. My experience (being more of a 
silent spectator) of this mailing list has been that many a times 
replies have been condescending. I don't see why that should make me 
someone who's hobby is asking such questions.


> Look, you asked a question that Matt has answered many, many times on this
> list. A brief Google will turn up, e.g. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/mpm/moot. It's common mailing list courtesy to search list
> archives and elsewhere for common questions before asking for help.

Very fair point. I did in fact search "why isn't paging enabled by 
default in mercurial" a while back - I use duckduckgo as my search 
engine and unfortunately nothing useful turned out in search results. 
Now that you pointed me to that specific link I decided to use google 
search and it indeed shows up a bunch of previous similar discussions. 
So yes, you are right - this has been discussed before and yes I should 
have done a much more better job searching for it. Thank you for 
including that link in your reply.

>   Matt's
> reply indicated clearly, and with some humour, that this has been done to
> death many times already.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, but I don't find it humorous, especially 
when there's absolutely nothing else in the reply.

Anyway, thanks for the help and good luck bringing smile to the users 
with that humour.


-Jaikiran