aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstatshomepage
path: root/Lib/pydoc.py
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/pydoc.py')
-rw-r--r--Lib/pydoc.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 063aa9cf076..de0084c3e54 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1429,7 +1429,8 @@ def getpager():
return plainpager
if not sys.stdin.isatty() or not sys.stdout.isatty():
return plainpager
- if 'PAGER' in os.environ:
+ use_pager = os.environ.get('MANPAGER') or os.environ.get('PAGER')
+ if use_pager:
if sys.platform == 'win32': # pipes completely broken in Windows
return lambda text: tempfilepager(plain(text), os.environ['PAGER'])
elif os.environ.get('TERM') in ('dumb', 'emacs'):