From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>
Cc: 44663@debbugs.gnu.org, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Subject: [bug#44663] [PATCH] ui: Launch $PAGER through the shell.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:16:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7pp4sxy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dqm47xg.fsf@db48x.net> (Daniel Brooks's message of "Sun, 15 Nov 2020 13:38:35 -0800")
Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> What’s the rationale though? Are there cases where this makes a
>> practical difference?
>
> The error I hit was effectively running PAGER=less -FXRS guix search
> foo. Everything else that uses PAGER handles this case just fine.
Oh, I see, hmm. I feel that going through the shell makes things more
brittle, but you describe a valid use case, so maybe we should just go
ahead and apply the patch Tobias posted.
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-15 18:47 [bug#44663] [PATCH] ui: Launch $PAGER through the shell Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-11-15 19:46 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-11-15 20:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-15 21:38 ` Daniel Brooks
2020-11-16 8:16 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-11-29 16:43 ` [bug#44663] [PATCH v2] ui: Handle multiword and empty $PAGER values Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2020-11-29 16:56 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
2021-08-03 20:02 ` bug#44663: [PATCH] ui: Launch $PAGER through the shell Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-29 16:52 ` [bug#44663] " Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via
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