Public bug reported:
I'm using less as my pager. PAGER env variable, `pager` and `sensible-pager`
commands also points to less.
When I execute `apt show <package>`, the pager is invoked by apt, it's less (I
can go up, different than more), but it doesn't use the configuration I had set
with the LESS env variable, so things like scrolling with the mouse wheel are
not possible.
If I execute `apt changelog <package>`, it did work since the command downloads
the changelog file in /tmp and opens it with the pager.
`apt show <package>|less` also works.
I found a $PAGER_ENV set in the file CMakeLists.txt in the apt's source, and it
sets some options for LESS env variable. I don't know if these values are being
used just during the compilation for the tests, or the value is kept forever,
which maybe isn't correct since it should respect the configurations defined by
the user in LESS env variable.
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2103921
Title:
APT doesn't respect pager's configuration with apt show
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I'm using less as my pager. PAGER env variable, `pager` and `sensible-pager`
commands also points to less.
When I execute `apt show <package>`, the pager is invoked by apt, it's less
(I can go up, different than more), but it doesn't use the configuration I had
set with the LESS env variable, so things like scrolling with the mouse wheel
are not possible.
If I execute `apt changelog <package>`, it did work since the command
downloads the changelog file in /tmp and opens it with the pager.
`apt show <package>|less` also works.
I found a $PAGER_ENV set in the file CMakeLists.txt in the apt's source, and
it sets some options for LESS env variable. I don't know if these values are
being used just during the compilation for the tests, or the value is kept
forever, which maybe isn't correct since it should respect the configurations
defined by the user in LESS env variable.
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