Cannot page when the $PAGER variable has options (i.e. 'less -E')

Bug #769901 reported by Tom Adams
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar Pager Plugin
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

The following setting works with git but not bzr-pager:
PAGER='less -E'

Probably, bzr-pager is just assuming $PAGER will be an option-less command.

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

Presumably this would just be a matter of calling shlex.split() before os.execlp() in __init__.py

Changed in bzr-pager:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Dario Bertini (berdario) wrote :

I stumbled upon this issue today, I made a small fix

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