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@@ -39,9 +39,12 @@ and the Python client in the source tree.
A command run from a pane (#btn("B2") on a line in its tag or text) also
gets `$winid`, the serial of that pane, as acme's commands do; it is unset
for one run from a column's or the workspace's tag, and `PARDES_PANE`
-stays the command pane's own. Every pane's child, a terminal's shell or a
-command, gets `PAGER=cat` and `GIT_PAGER=cat` unless your environment sets
-them, so nothing waits in a pager.
+stays the command pane's own.
+
+A paging command run through #file("pty/run") does not hang: the
+terminal's pager is `pardes -`, which puts the text in a `+Pager` pane and
+returns. A command pane pages through `cat`; its output is a pane already.
+Both hold only where your environment names no pager.
= Recipes
@@ -102,10 +105,6 @@ pardes the editor of every program run there.
the bad one fails. Send a block as one write (`cat block > $p/ctl`), and
end every write whose result matters with a newline.
- plan9port's `9p write` opens with OTRUNC: `echo x | 9p write pane/3/body` replaces the whole body. Append with `>>` through a mount.
-- #file("pty/run") runs in the terminal's own shell, so a command that
- pages waits in the pager when your environment names one (pardes sets
- `PAGER` and `GIT_PAGER` to `cat` only when it does not): run
- `git --no-pager ...` or `PAGER=cat ...`.
- `tail -f log` never sees anything new: write `follow` on the open you
read. Through a FUSE mount bash's `read -t` cannot time out: wrap the
loop in `timeout`.