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[bug#55845] [PATCH 0/1] Improve pager selection logic when less is not i


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: [bug#55845] [PATCH 0/1] Improve pager selection logic when less is not installed
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:22:08 +0200

Hi again,

Taiju HIGASHI 写道:
I understand that I can delay the evaluation timing if I make it a procedure, but is my understanding correct that the number of calls will
remain the same because it will be evaluated each time the
`call-with-paginated-output-port` procedure is called?

Previously, it would have been evaluated even if call-with-paginated-output-port was never called at all.

As for the >0 calls case: yes… but when do we expect call-with-paginated-output-port to be called more than once per run?

The use case for this code is to do something, then display it in a pager and exit. I think calling it multiple times in one run would imply bad UX.

Do I misunderstand?

I agree with your point that it would be better to make it a procedure, as it would be more eco-friendly to not have to evaluate when GUIX_PAGER
or PAGER is specified.

I wish the rest of Guix were so efficient that it mattered :-)

[/me is waiting for ‘guix pull’ as I reply to multiple mails, on battery…]

Regardless, not calling a procedure at all is even more efficient and IMO more readable here.

You mean that the $PATH lookup in open-pipe can be suppressed?

Yes. OPEN-PIPE* won't need to stat $PATH at all if we give it "/run/current-system/profile/bin/less" instead of "less".

(It's not relevant to the above, but my previously reply mistakenly mentioned a shell — there is no shell involved with OPEN-PIPE*, only with OPEN-PIPE. Sorry.)

I will just write what you have told me, but may I continue to modify
the patch?

Of course!  Curious how, though.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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