[PATCH] patman: Handle PAGER containing arguments

When printing full help output from patman, we should be able to handle a PAGER variable which includes arguments, e.g. PAGER='less -F'.
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker paul.barker@sancloud.com ---
tools/patman/main.py | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/patman/main.py b/tools/patman/main.py index 04e37a5931..4d6f195b7c 100755 --- a/tools/patman/main.py +++ b/tools/patman/main.py @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from argparse import ArgumentParser import os import re +import shlex import shutil import sys import traceback @@ -170,14 +171,14 @@ elif args.cmd == 'send': fd.close()
elif args.full_help: - pager = os.getenv('PAGER') + pager = shlex.split(os.getenv('PAGER')) if not pager: - pager = shutil.which('less') + pager = [shutil.which('less')] if not pager: - pager = 'more' + pager = ['more'] fname = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0])), 'README') - command.Run(pager, fname) + command.Run(*pager, fname)
else: # If we are not processing tags, no need to warning about bad ones

Hi Paul,
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 04:26, Paul Barker paul.barker@sancloud.com wrote:
When printing full help output from patman, we should be able to handle a PAGER variable which includes arguments, e.g. PAGER='less -F'.
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker paul.barker@sancloud.com
tools/patman/main.py | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Can you please add a function to print full help to test_util.py instead? Then we can use it in the other tools too.
Regards, Simon

On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 12:31:41 -0600 Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 04:26, Paul Barker paul.barker@sancloud.com wrote:
When printing full help output from patman, we should be able to handle a PAGER variable which includes arguments, e.g. PAGER='less -F'.
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker paul.barker@sancloud.com
tools/patman/main.py | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Can you please add a function to print full help to test_util.py instead? Then we can use it in the other tools too.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll take a look at this next week and send an updated patch.

On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 12:31:41 -0600 Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org wrote:
Hi Paul,
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 04:26, Paul Barker paul.barker@sancloud.com wrote:
When printing full help output from patman, we should be able to handle a PAGER variable which includes arguments, e.g. PAGER='less -F'.
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker paul.barker@sancloud.com
tools/patman/main.py | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Can you please add a function to print full help to test_util.py instead? Then we can use it in the other tools too.
Regards, Simon
Hi Simon,
I had to delay work on this due to illness, it's still on my list though.
Thanks,
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