Re: the pager

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> I've noticed that Git by default puts long output through "less" as a
> pager.  I don't like that, but this is not the time to change
> established behavior.  But while tracking that down, I noticed that
> the paging behavior is controlled by at least 5 things:
> 
> the -p/--paginate/--no-pager options
> the GIT_PAGER environment variable
> the PAGER environment variable
> the core.pager Git configuration variable
> the build-in default (which seems to usually be "less")

One complication is the meaning of -p/--no-pager:

With the remaining sources, we assume that there is a priority
sequence, and that is used to determine what the pager is.

There is a somewhat independent question of when the pager is
activated.  What I know so far is that some commands use the pager by
default and some by default do not.  My expectation is that
--no-pager can be used to suppress the pager for *any* command.  Is it
also true that -p can force the pager for *any* command, or are there
commands which will not page even with -p?

I assume that if -p is specified but the "which pager" selection is
"cat" (or some other specification of no pager), then there is no
paging operation.

Dale
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