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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 10:44:34 +0200
From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
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To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Subject: Re: Why doesn't READNULLCMD default to $PAGER?
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On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 08:01, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> On Sep 30, 11:40pm, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> }
> } Why doesn't READNULLCMD default to $PAGER instead of more?
>
> Because $PAGER is not a variable set or used by the shell.

Well, is there some security concern in Zsh reading it?  Why not
initialize READNULLCMD as follows (converted to equivalent C code, of
course)?

READNULLCMD=${PAGER:-more}

I mean, I set PAGER because I don't want more(1) (or less(1) for that
matter) to be invoked by most other programs that need a PAGER.