[IPython-dev] Need help from Ipython guru...

Ville M. Vainio vivainio at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 06:49:00 EST 2007


On Dec 6, 2007 3:13 PM, Laurent Dufrechou <Laurent.Dufrechou at free.fr> wrote:

> Perhaps ville you know how os.environ declaration are used by IPython?
>
> I don't understand this line:
> os.environ['TERM'] = 'dumb'
>
> Fernando says me to  do a os.environ['PAGER'] but i don't understand how
> that interact wiht ipython shell

It just looks up the environment variable PAGER. To hook up paging to
a function, we would need a hook but that is not yet available.
Perhaps adding such a thing (all the hooks are in hooks.py) to IPython
is in order?

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