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[PATCH] Set PAGER=cat in comint.el

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: sbaugh <at> catern.com, 62958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, sbaugh <at> janestreet.com
Subject: bug#62958: [PATCH] Set PAGER=cat in comint.el
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 19:59:43 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  Spencer Baugh <sbaugh <at> janestreet.com>,
>   62958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 19:39:12 +0300
> 
> It seems not possible just to set the ENV variable 'LINES'.
> >From 'man less':
> 
>   LINES  Sets the number of lines on the screen.  Takes precedence over the number  of
>          lines  specified  by  the TERM variable.  (But if you have a windowing system
>          which supports TIOCGWINSZ or WIOCGETD, the window system's idea of the screen
>          size takes precedence over the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.)
> 
> And indeed it has no effect when I tried.  Maybe because window size
> adjustments are explicitly coded in 'window--adjust-process-windows'.

Almost definitely because of that.

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