Listing cheats forces pager on latest Debian/Ubuntu about cheat HOT 6 CLOSED

I just downloaded the linux binary from Github Releases.
Changing pager via environment didn't work but changing it in the config did.
Thanks for the workaround

from cheat.

Hi, @vaporup

Thanks for reporting this. A friend reported something similar a few days ago.

Question: how did you install cheat initially? I'm unclear if the issue is with the executable itself, or perhaps with one of the packages.

Regarding solving your problem:

This is probably happening in the newest version of cheat because I changed the default pager from less to more in order to better support Windows out-of-the-box.

You should be able to either export PAGER=less in your shell environment, or simply configure the pager in the cheat configuration file. That should be you back up and running in the short-term.

Thanks for reporting this issue, however. We need the default configuration to work on all platforms, so this is definitely worth fixing.

from cheat.

OK, great. Thanks for the info. I'll take a look at that this week.

from cheat.

@vaporup, I'm having a hard time reproducing this. Do you know if the more pager was installed on the box that initially had the problem? What's your output of which more? Thanks.

Disregard. I actually can reproduce this. Sorry for the ping.

from cheat.

I'm pinning this one and tagging it has help-wanted because I'd like others' eyes on it as well.

from cheat.

Well, I simply can't make more behave the way I'd hope/expect on Linux systems. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, or if there's a bug in more, or what.

With that said, the 4.2.6 release works around this problem:
https://github.com/cheat/cheat/releases/tag/4.2.6

I'm simply burying more here when looking for pagers on Linux systems, and I'm no longer setting it as the default pager. With that said, it's possible that user a will still encounter this error if the following conditions are met:

1. They're using a Linux system
2. They have not configured a pager
3. more is available on the PATH
4. more exhibits the problem described in this ticket (which doesn't happen everywhere)

For the unlucky souls that meet the criteria above and happen to encounter this issue, please just specify a pager in the cheat config file.

from cheat.