The behaviour of systemctl.

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 18.06.11 13:02, Ville Skyttä (ville.skytta at iki.fi) wrote:

> 
> On 06/18/2011 01:06 AM, Aaron Sowry wrote:
> > n Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:41:14PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
> >> As you point out, git-log and --help do this too.  It's excellent.
> >> Make it configurable if you must, but I'd be interested to think why
> >> you think it's not always the useful thing to do.
> > 
> > The reasons why it's not the useful thing to do were pointed out in my previous email.
> 
> I don't appreciate the default paging behavior at all either, but at
> least git gives me an easy global way to get rid of it: export
> GIT_PAGER=cat in ~/.bash_profile.  systemctl does not seem to offer
> anything comparable (remembering to type --no-pager or setting $PAGER
> which affects other things do not count), or did I miss something?

Ask us nicely and we'll add SYSTEMD_PAGER for you, taking precedence
over PAGER.

Even more convincing might be prepping a patch for this.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.