Re: hint: Run `guix search ... | less' to view all the results

[pinoaffe]

On 2020-04-27 08:38, Jan Synacek wrote:
> While we're at it, let me also give my opinion about supporting PAGER.
> If it means that if PAGER is set, use it, otherwise don't page, then
> that's perfectly valid and, in my opinion, how PAGER support is
> supposed to work. If it means that *unless* something is set *not to
> use* a pager as some tools currently do (I can only think of some of
> the systemd tools off top of my head), use pager by default, then
> that's also backwards. But it's still much better than truncating
> output by default.
imo the best option would be to page, print or truncate depending on
an envvar and/or a commandline flag