Hi,
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > you can blame the person calling git log and waiting until it
> > finishes. See the list archives for reasons why.
> ... and earlier:
> > Usually the output of git-log -- even with pathname
> > filtering -- starts almost instantaneous, and is piped to your pager.
>
> The pager ('less') in a console is not a good solution for everone:
> - People used to GUI editors (kate, nedit, ...) miss a scroll bar for
> navigation. You can't use kate or nedit as a pager.
> - PAGER="vi -" also reads all input before it displays anything.
> - PAGER="xless" likewise.
> - In Emacs shell-mode, with PAGER="", you see the output as it is produced,
> but it's disturbing to work in a buffer which is growing, where the scrollbar
> continues to change its position.
>
> It's OK for many people, but not for everyone.
So why don't you go scratch that itch, and write a decent GUI pager?
Ciao,
Dscho
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