What should Python apps do when asked to show help?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:24 PM,  <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> Yes, PAGER=cat would make "man" also not page, and likely almost everything.
> And yet I am unwilling to do so. Why?
>
> On reflection, my personal problems with this approach are twofold:
>
> - I want $PAGER to specify my preferred pager when I do want a pager, so
> setting it to "cat" does not inform apps about my wishes

So you expect the environment variable to say which of multiple pagers
you might want, but only when you already want a pager. Okay. How is
an app supposed to know whether or not to use a pager? How do you
expect them to mindread?

ChrisA