unofficial mirror of help-guix@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie question: How to disable pager in "guix search"?
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 14:50:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGxMbPbeqy8a3JU9KPFXBBj4a-ZJqBwBAHeCfp_rR67Nx5g+Rg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGxMbPb5VQzu6uPBnvKXjim9JzXQSOWdE8B-Xrhk3MYJdNA0kQ@mail.gmail.com>

I asked the same question in <irc://irc.libera.chat/#guix> and someone
recommended me setting PAGER to an empty value I did by executing the
following command

,----
| export PAGER=
`----

This solved the issue. Someone also recommended me setting the `PAGER'
environmental variable in my Emacs configuration and shared his personal
configuration which contained the following statements

,----
| (setenv "EDITOR"         "emacsclient")
| (setenv "GIT_EDITOR"     "emacsclient")
| (setenv "MANPATH"        (getenv "MANPATH"))
| (setenv "PAGER"          "cat")
| (setenv "PATH"           (getenv "PATH"))
| (setenv "PROMPT_COMMAND" "")
| (setenv "SHELL"          (getenv "SHELL"))
| (setenv "TERM"           (getenv "TERM"))
`----

On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 2:36 PM Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Table of Contents
> _________________
>
> 1. The problem
> 2. The question
>
> 1 The problem
> =============
>
>   Most of the times, I use shell-mode in Emacs and execute "guix"
>   commands. When I execute "guix search", the following warning is shown
>
>   ,----
>   | guix search emacs
>   `----
>
>   ,----
>   | WARNING: terminal is not functional
>   | Press RETURN to continue
>   `----
>
>   I think the reason why this happens is that the command tries to use a
>   pager which is not possible in shell-mode.
>
>   I need to press C-c C-c to exit the command which is time-consuming
>   and doesn't allow me to normally search a buffer as I would normally
>   do it in Emacs.
>
>   I'd rather guix did not use a pager and instead show all the results
>   in raw text since that way I can scroll up and search within Emacs.
>
>
> 2 The question
> ==============
>
>   How could I disable the pager in "guix search" and make it display the
>   output in raw text?
>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-05 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-05 19:36 Newbie question: How to disable pager in "guix search"? Rodrigo Morales
2023-03-05 19:50 ` Rodrigo Morales [this message]
2023-03-05 19:58   ` Felix Lechner via
2023-03-05 22:21   ` Wojtek Kosior via

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://guix.gnu.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAGxMbPbeqy8a3JU9KPFXBBj4a-ZJqBwBAHeCfp_rR67Nx5g+Rg@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com \
    --cc=help-guix@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).