bzr-pager Plugin

05.02.09

bzr-pager Plugin

I like the feature in git, where commands that produce long output get piped to $PAGER.
This means, that if you do a "git diff" and its output will not fit into the current terminal window without scrolling, it will get piped to "less" by default, so that you can easily search and scroll in the output. Additionally (and that's the main point IMHO) it does not pollute your scrollback history (when you exit from your pager, the terminal will only display the call to the command, but not its output).

Luckily, there's a plugin for bzr, which provides the same functionality: bzr-pager

You can install it as follows:

mkdir -p ~/.bazaar/plugins && \ cd ~/.bazaar/plugins && \ bzr branch lp:bzr-pager pager

By Daniel in development, Ubuntu, musthaves – 2009-02-05

Tags: bzr, howto, install, pager

8 comments

Comment from: Adam [Visitor]

Any plans for providing a tarball to ease packaging?

2009-02-05 @ 22:29

Comment from: Daniel [Member]

Adam, thanks for your interest.
You may want to file a bug/wish at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-pager.
Otherwise, you can extract it from the bazaar repo quite easliy.
What do you want it for?

2009-02-05 @ 22:41

Comment from: Adam [Visitor]

I maintain the bzr packages for MacPorts and its just a lot easier packaging if theres an upstream tarball. I'll file a ticket.

2009-02-05 @ 23:13

Comment from: Bryan Forbes [Visitor]

You're my hero! Thank you for this invaluable plugin.

2009-02-06 @ 01:55

Comment from: Chris Conway [Visitor]

You also need to rename the branch directory, or you'll get the error "Unable to load 'bzr-pager' in '~/.bazaar/plugins' as a plugin because the file path isn't a valid module name".