ctrl+d closes pager when scrolling below end of output. about icdiff

[jeffkaufman]

Hmm; I just tested this (linux, git-icidiff 1.7.2) and I don't see this behavior. What os are you on? What do the following commands give you?

• git config --get core.pager
• cat $(which git-icdiff)

[xrat]

On my Debian Wheezy ^D closing the pager is typical for more contrary to less. Isn't this just a matter of $PAGER?

[mateusz-fiolka]

@jeffkaufman
It's os x, 10.10.1 (14B25).

git config --get core.pager returns nothing. But I've just set this option to less and it works the same way.

git-icdiff is

#!/bin/bash
GITPAGER=$(git config --get core.pager)

if [ -z "$GITPAGER" ]; then
  GITPAGER="$PAGER"
fi

if [ -z "$GITPAGER" ]; then
  GITPAGER="less -R"
fi

if [ "$GITPAGER" = "more" -o "$GITPAGER" = "less" ]; then
  GITPAGER="$GITPAGER -R"
fi

export LESS_IS_MORE=1   # If it fits on the screen, don't page.
CMD="git difftool --no-prompt --extcmd icdiff $@ | $GITPAGER"
eval $CMD

@xrat $PAGER is set to less

[mateusz-fiolka]

The final eval-uated command is:

git difftool --no-prompt --extcmd icdiff | less -R
(I've just printed it out in git-icdiff).

But when I enter it manually (without eval) the behaviour I get is expected (doesn't exit on ctrl+d). Which means that the problem is because of using eval.

But changing last two lines to git difftool --no-prompt --extcmd icdiff $@ | less -R doesn't help.

[mateusz-fiolka]

@jeffkaufman @xrat

Ok, I've just found that removing LESS_IS_MORE line fixes the problem. As I see in latest version it is also removed. Thus my problem ceased to exist.
This issue can be now closed.

Thank you for your help!