Re: Newbie question: How to disable pager in "guix search"?

[Rodrigo Morales]

I asked the same question in <irc://irc.libera.chat/#guix> and someone
recommended me setting PAGER to an empty value I did by executing the
following command

,----
| export PAGER=
`----

This solved the issue. Someone also recommended me setting the `PAGER'
environmental variable in my Emacs configuration and shared his personal
configuration which contained the following statements

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| (setenv "EDITOR"         "emacsclient")
| (setenv "GIT_EDITOR"     "emacsclient")
| (setenv "MANPATH"        (getenv "MANPATH"))
| (setenv "PAGER"          "cat")
| (setenv "PATH"           (getenv "PATH"))
| (setenv "PROMPT_COMMAND" "")
| (setenv "SHELL"          (getenv "SHELL"))
| (setenv "TERM"           (getenv "TERM"))
`----

On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 2:36 PM Rodrigo Morales <moralesrodrigo1100@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Table of Contents
> _________________
>
> 1. The problem
> 2. The question
>
> 1 The problem
> =============
>
>   Most of the times, I use shell-mode in Emacs and execute "guix"
>   commands. When I execute "guix search", the following warning is shown
>
>   ,----
>   | guix search emacs
>   `----
>
>   ,----
>   | WARNING: terminal is not functional
>   | Press RETURN to continue
>   `----
>
>   I think the reason why this happens is that the command tries to use a
>   pager which is not possible in shell-mode.
>
>   I need to press C-c C-c to exit the command which is time-consuming
>   and doesn't allow me to normally search a buffer as I would normally
>   do it in Emacs.
>
>   I'd rather guix did not use a pager and instead show all the results
>   in raw text since that way I can scroll up and search within Emacs.
>
>
> 2 The question
> ==============
>
>   How could I disable the pager in "guix search" and make it display the
>   output in raw text?
>