Re: git-diff should not fire up $PAGER, period!

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

Miles Bader schrieb:

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Just (setenv "PAGER" "cat") in .emacs.

[I actually have it set to /bin/cat, not sure if that's meaningful or not.]

No, really, you should set it to plain "cat": As a special case git
recognizes this token and does not run any pager. If you set it to
"/bin/cat" it does run a pager, namely /bin/cat.

But that would not hurt ;-).

On the other hand, using PAGER=cat or PAGER=/bin/cat is the right thing to
do in compilation and shell modes in Emacs, regardless of your use of git.