Comment 7 for bug 213718
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| Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote Re: automatically run pager for display commands | #7 |
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(Get the code!)
I reported a dup of this bug a couple of days ago after doing some diffs on the newly-released Launchpad tree that were taking (according to 'time') 26.6 seconds.
I forgot '| less -S' on one occasion, and by the time the command has finished running for the second time, that's a whole minute of my time disappeared; if I wander off and boil too many kettles per hour, I end up needing to get rid of it aswell...
It is not a problem with Git, (a) because Git tends to be about 10x faster at this sort of time-consuming operation and (b) Git already fires up the PAGER when it's going to overflow my screen.
Put simply, either Bzr badly needs the PAGER automation, or it needs to get *alot* faster; adding 5 lines to fire up the pager is going to take less implementation time. It's perfectly fine to have an option to _disable_ the auto-paging, but currently there isn't the capability to enable it either.