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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Guix search, colors and INSIDE_EMACS
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:16:00 +0100
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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

>> Isn=E2=80=99t it considered best practise to set PAGER=3Dcat when using =
Emacs as a
>> shell?  That=E2=80=99s what I do to show man pages (when I=E2=80=99m not=
 using M-x
>> woman) or to have =E2=80=9Cgit log=E2=80=9D do the right thing.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> env PAGER=3Dcat guix search emacs
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> or
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> export PAGER=3Dcat
> guix search emacs
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> still displays the hint for me in M-x shell or Eshell.

That=E2=80=99s because Guix doesn=E2=80=99t yet respect the PAGER variable.=
  But it
should.  Shortly after the hint was introduced and the display was
truncated by default there was a discussion about making Guix respect
PAGER and only display the hint when it wasn=E2=80=99t set.

--
Ricardo