bzr should default to 'less' when output > $LINES
Bug #404016 reported by
Paul Sladen
This bug affects 1 person
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Bug Description
Ideally bzr should measure the size of the output produced by a command (eg. blame, diff, log...) and use the default PAGER or 'less -S' if the output is going to be longer than the number of lines on the terminal (env('LINES')) minus the number of lines in the default prompt (assume 1-2 for ease of implementation).
When you've just waited 26.6 seconds (genuine example) for bzr to finish thinking about some diff you requested, it wastes *another* 30 seconds to have to then append '| less -S' and start the command all over again.
Ideally bzr should default to piping to a pager when connected to a terminal and when the output is longer than a page of the display terminal.
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