Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] Fix interaction between quilt and vimdiff

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Fre, 2012-03-02 at 13:58 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Using vimdiff as a diff viewer in quilt breaks if QUILT_PAGER is set.
> So inhibit the pager in that case. Other diff viewers may be affected
> as well but I don't know how to fix this in a generic way, short of
> inhibiting the pager as soon as option --diff is passed to the diff
> command. Not sure if this desirable though, as I presume
> non-interactive alternative diff viewers must exist too.

I think we don't really need the pages logic when the --diff=command
option is used: the command can implement paging itself if that is
desired.  We *could* add a --pager option to force the pager to be used
in addition, but I don't think anyone really needs that.

Andreas