Mercurial pager extension

Question

Mercurial's pager extension doesn't use the pager for hg status, is this a bug?

Also, when using hg glog -p, the pager is used, but this doesn't conform to the guide: "If no pager is set, the pager extension uses the environment variable $PAGER. If neither pager.pager, nor $PAGER is set, no pager is used." I have no $PAGER set.

Answer 1

Please see hg help pager:

pager extension - browse command output with an external pager
[...]
Below is the default list of commands to be paged:

  [pager]
  attend = annotate, cat, diff, export, glog, log, qdiff

Setting pager.attend to an empty value will cause all commands to be paged.
[...]

So it's documented behavior: the status command is not paged by default.