[IPython-dev] Questin regarding pager

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 13:01:20 EDT 2008


On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Doing TAB-completion makes use of the readline pager, which isn't All
> That Great.  With pyreadline available, is there an easy way to
> default to a more advanced completion pager?

Ville recently added an option to *disable* the pager altogether, but
I don't know if one can hook a different pager into readline.  When
ipython pages, it honors the $PAGER variable, but I have no idea if
readline does as well.  Have you tried setting $PAGER to what you want
to use?

Cheers,

f



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