output to a terminal should default to using /usr/bin/pager

Bug #189567 reported by LaMont Jones
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #213718: Use bzr-pager by default. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

When stdout is a tty, output should automatically be directed through /usr/bin/pager (with an environment variable to override that possibly?)

Users who really want e.g., bzr log to spew past their window at full speed can bzr log | cat :-)

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Lukáš Lalinský (luks) wrote :

This exactly is one reason why I can't use git with the default settings. :)

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Alexander Belchenko (bialix) wrote :

I think it's more feature request rather than real bug. Please, send feature requests to bazaar mailing list.

Changed in bzr:
status: New → Incomplete
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