Re: null commands...

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Vincent Lefevre (vlefevre@ens-lyon.fr) wrote:
> This wouldn't always work. $PAGER may have arguments, e.g. "less -is".
> But $READNULLCMD can't:
[...]
> Is it a bug?

No, it's another gripe for READNULLCMD (regardless of $PAGER): It
should be parsed as command-line string.  So
< file
should be translated to
${=READNULLCMD} < file
instead of $READNULLCMD < file, which is currently the case.

With the $PAGER changes zsh would do the following:

If READNULLCMD is non-empty, `< file' means `${=READNULLCMD} < file',
else if PAGER is non-empty, `< file' means `${=PAGER} < file',
else `< file' means `more < file'.

I think this behaviour would be well-accepted by the users which
generally set PAGER to whatever they like (e.g. less or "less -i").
Would it be hard to code to exec.c?

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