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| -rw-r--r-- | sdn.cpp | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -879,7 +879,9 @@ fun run_program (initializer_list<const char*> list, const string &filename) { } fun view (const string &filename) { - run_program ({(const char *) getenv ("PAGER"), "pager", "cat"}, filename); + // XXX: we cannot realistically detect that the pager hasn't made a pause + // at the end of the file, so we can't ensure all contents have been seen + run_program ({(const char *) getenv ("PAGER"), "less", "cat"}, filename); } fun edit (const string &filename) { @@ -903,7 +905,7 @@ fun run_pager (FILE *contents) { dup2 (fileno (contents), STDIN_FILENO); // Behaviour copies man-db's man(1), similar to POSIX man(1) - for (auto pager : {(const char *) getenv ("PAGER"), "pager", "cat"}) + for (auto pager : {(const char *) getenv ("PAGER"), "less", "cat"}) if (pager) execl ("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", "-c", pager, NULL); _exit (EXIT_FAILURE); default: |