help: clarify the choice of pager

This follows the change made in 4fba4efc2e2e to use environment variables
between system and user configuration.
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Xavier Lepaul 2017-06-02 10:44:40 +02:00
parent 66a53a8e31
commit a75e0dc064

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@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::
[pager]
pager = less -FRX
If no pager is set, Mercurial uses the environment variable
$PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, a default pager
will be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.
If no pager is set in the user or repository configuration, Mercurial uses the
environment variable $PAGER. If $PAGER is not set, pager.pager from the default
or system configuration is used. If none of these are set, a default pager will
be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.
.. container:: windows