[bitbake-devel] [PATCH] bitbake : Paginate 'bitbake -e' using less.

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday, 26 June 2017 10:02:20 PM BST Rob Woolley wrote:
> Feel free to grab pieces from here, if you find it useful:
> https://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/89543/
> 
> I based it on the same logic used by git to determine whether the user had
> a pager set already and whether or not the output was going to the terminal
> or being piped to another process.
> 
> The feedback I got was that the functionality wasn't needed and users could
> just pipe it to less if they wanted a pager:
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/bitbake-devel/2015-March/005545.html

FWIW I like this feature of git and would very much like to see it implemented 
for bitbake -e.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre