Crate pager [−] [src]

Does all the magic to have you potentially long output piped through the external pager. Similar to what git does for its output.

Quick Start

extern crate pager;
use pager::Pager;
fn main() {
    Pager::new().setup();
    // The rest of your program goes here
}

Under the hood this forks the current process, connects child' stdout to parent's stdin, and then replaces the parent with the pager of choice (environment variable PAGER). The child just continues as normal.

You can control pager to a limited degree. For example you can change the environment variable used for finding pager executable.

extern crate pager;
use pager::Pager;
fn main() {
    Pager::env("MY_PAGER").setup();
    // The rest of your program goes here
}

If no PAGER is found setup() does nothing and your executable keeps running as usual. Pager cleans after itself and doesn't leak resources in case of setup failure.

Structs

Pager