[darcs-users] Colouring and pagination

[Lele Gaifax]

Ash Moran <ash.moran at patchspace.co.uk> writes:

> But is there any way to get darcs to automatically paginate if its
> output reaches over one screenful? One of the things I like about the
> git UI I like is that the output of e.g. `git log` is paginated. I've
> got an alias set up, dl="darcs log | less", which helps, but this then
> paginates even if the output is short. I suppose I could go through
> and make aliases for everything, but it seems something darcs could do
> in a saner way.

I set LESS=FXR in my shell environ:

       -F or --quit-if-one-screen
              Causes less to automatically exit if the entire file can
              be displayed on the first screen.

       -R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS
              Like -r, but only ANSI "color" escape sequences are output
              in "raw" form.  Unlike -r, the screen appearance is
              maintained correctly in most cases.  ANSI "color" escape
              sequences are sequences of the form:
              
       -X or --no-init
              Disables sending the termcap initialization and
              deinitialization strings to the terminal.  This is
              sometimes desirable if the deinitialization string does
              something unnecessary, like clearing the screen.

ciao, lele.
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