Why doesn't READNULLCMD default to $PAGER?

Why doesn't READNULLCMD default to $PAGER?

[Nikolai Weibull]

Why doesn't READNULLCMD default to $PAGER instead of more?

Re: Why doesn't READNULLCMD default to $PAGER?

[Bart Schaefer]

On Sep 30, 11:40pm, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
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Because $PAGER is not a variable set or used by the shell.

Re: Why doesn't READNULLCMD default to $PAGER?

[Nikolai Weibull]

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.

Re: Why doesn't READNULLCMD default to $PAGER?

[Richard Hartmann]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:44, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:

> 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.

Off topic, but if you are using most instead of less just for color
support, you might find happiness with


    if [ $terminfo[colors] -ge 8 ]
    then
        export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'
        export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;31m'
        export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'
        export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'
        export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m'
        export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'
        export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'
    fi


Richard