Some Mercurial commands can produce a lot of output, and Mercurial will

attempt to use a pager to make those commands more pleasant.

To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::

  [pager]

  pager = less -FRX

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

  On Windows, `more` is not color aware, so using it effectively disables color.

  MSYS and Cygwin shells provide `less` as a pager, which can be configured to

  support ANSI color codes.  See :hg:`help config.color.pagermode` to configure

  the color mode when invoking a pager.

You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the

pager.ignore list::

  [pager]

  ignore = version, help, update

To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have

to specify them in your user configuration file.

To control whether the pager is used at all for an individual command,

you can use --pager=<value>:

  - use as needed: `auto`.

  - require the pager: `yes` or `on`.

  - suppress the pager: `no` or `off` (any unrecognized value

    will also work).

To globally turn off all attempts to use a pager, set::

  [ui]

  paginate = never

which will prevent the pager from running.