On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 11:20 AM Mateusz Piotrowski <0...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hello Rodney, > > On 11/14/20 4:59 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer) > >> Date: Sat Nov 14 13:07:41 2020 > >> New Revision: 367678 > >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/367678 > >> > >> Log: > >> Document the PAGER environment variable > >> > >> Sometimes users want to use freebsd-update(8) in a non-interactive way > >> and > >> what they often miss is that they have to set PAGER to cat(1) in order > >> to > >> avoid interactive prompts from less(1). > > Which was caused by the change of invoking more(1) as less(1) causing > > this regression, as when invoked as more(1) it falls off the end of > > empty input and causes no such interactive prompt. > > > > Setting PAGER to more(1) also fixes this. > > Mmm, I'm not sure if that would work. If I run "jot 1000 | more" in my > terminal I still get an > interactive prompt. Could it be that you are referring to a different more(1) > implementation? I'm > clearly missing something. >
more(1) is more or less like `less -E`, which is a default PAGER I had advocated for back when it changed. It can be mostly non-interactive as long as your diffs are small, but it's definitely much less painful. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
