Determine pager from PAGER environment variable

Signed-off-by: Solderpunk <solderpunk@sdf.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/telem.lua b/telem.lua
index ddf967a..991544b 100755
--- a/telem.lua
+++ b/telem.lua
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ end
 if not _EDITOR then
 	_EDITOR = "nano"
 end
+_PAGER = os.getenv("PAGER")
+if not _PAGER then
+	_PAGER = "less"
+end
 
 _COLOURS = {
 	red=31,
@@ -585,7 +589,7 @@ end
 function do_type_whole()
 	local filename = os.tmpname()
 	do_type_savefile(filename)
-	os.execute("less " .. filename)
+	os.execute(_PAGER .. " " .. filename)
 	file.delete(filename)
 end