| From: | "'bruce(at)momjian(dot)us'" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Ed Avis <eda(at)waniasset(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "'tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "'pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #11986: psql uses pager inside Emacs shell buffer (not a terminal) |
| Date: | 2014-12-05 18:26:48 |
| Message-ID: | 20141205182648.GA4891@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 03:48:45AM +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
> >A truly dumb terminal would be where you'd need a pager the most
>
> That is true but how many are using teletypes these days? If the
> terminal type is 'dumb' that indicates for sure that some other
> program is processing the output. Nobody is running psql inside a
> terminal which is truly bereft of cursor movement commands - except
> perhaps on Windows, which can be detected separately.
Many shell scripts run from cron have a 'dumb' terminal value.
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