# Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Chris Ball # W. Trevor King # # This file is part of Bugs Everywhere. # # Bugs Everywhere is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free # Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any # later version. # # Bugs Everywhere is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for # more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with # Bugs Everywhere. If not, see . """ Automatic pager for terminal output (a la Git). """ import sys, os, select # see http://nex-3.com/posts/73-git-style-automatic-paging-in-ruby def run_pager(paginate='auto'): """ paginate should be one of 'never', 'auto', or 'always'. usage: just call this function and continue using sys.stdout like you normally would. """ if paginate == 'never' \ or sys.platform == 'win32' \ or not hasattr(sys.stdout, 'isatty') \ or sys.stdout.isatty() == False: return if paginate == 'auto': if 'LESS' not in os.environ: os.environ['LESS'] = '' # += doesn't work on undefined var # don't page if the input is short enough os.environ['LESS'] += ' -FRX' if 'PAGER' in os.environ: pager = os.environ['PAGER'] else: pager = 'less' read_fd, write_fd = os.pipe() if os.fork() == 0: # child process os.close(read_fd) os.dup2(write_fd, 1) os.close(write_fd) if hasattr(sys.stderr, 'isatty') and sys.stderr.isatty() == True: os.dup2(1, 2) return # parent process, become pager os.close(write_fd) os.dup2(read_fd, 0) os.close(read_fd) # Wait until we have input before we start the pager select.select([0], [], []) os.execlp(pager, pager)