From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: jporterbugs@gmail.com, 72426@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72426: 29.2.50; comint-pager doesn't affect async-shell-command
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:31:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ierfrrg2vud.fsf@janestreet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86y158mk08.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:26:47 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
>> Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>, 72426@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:05:47 -0400
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> >> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 19:36:15 -0700
>> >> Cc: 72426@debbugs.gnu.org
>> >> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >> Just to be extra-sure, I tried using 'async-shell-command' to run "git
>> >> log" with PAGER unset, and sure enough it tried to use "less" for
>> >> paging, which didn't go very well. "PAGER=cat" was much better.
>> >
>> > Did you try with process-connection-type nil?
>>
>> With process-connection-type nil, git will never run a pager (since like
>> many programs it checks whether stdout is a terminal before doing so).
>>
>> So both:
>>
>> (let ((process-connection-type nil)
>> (process-environment (cons '("PAGER" "less") process-environment)))
>> (async-shell-command "git log"))
>>
>> and
>>
>> (let ((process-connection-type nil)
>> (process-environment (cons "PAGER" process-environment)))
>> (async-shell-command "git log"))
>>
>> behave identically.
>>
>> Setting PAGER=cat is only necessary for process-connection-type=t.
>
> As expected. The problem is that a Lisp program could let-bind this
> variable around a call to async-shell-command (or some other similar
> API), in which case a setting in startup.el will not catch that. But
> maybe we don't care, since a program whose stdout is not a console
> device will ignore PAGER anyway.
Yep - I think it's fine for the same reason it's fine to have TERM set
by default, even though it's ignored by programs whose stdout is a pipe.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-02 18:35 bug#72426: 29.2.50; comint-pager doesn't affect async-shell-command Spencer Baugh
2024-08-02 18:39 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-03 5:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-03 10:47 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-03 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-03 16:42 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-03 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-06 15:33 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-06 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-06 16:29 ` Jim Porter
2024-08-06 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-03 18:38 ` Jim Porter
2024-08-06 15:31 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-06 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-06 16:42 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-06 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-06 18:49 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-06 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-06 19:23 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-07 2:36 ` Jim Porter
2024-08-07 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-07 15:05 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-07 15:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-07 15:31 ` Spencer Baugh [this message]
2024-08-07 16:08 ` Jim Porter
2024-08-07 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-07 15:09 ` Spencer Baugh
2024-08-17 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-13 1:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-09-13 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-13 23:45 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-09-14 6:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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