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[ghost]

❯ PAGER=nvimpager R
>?file

❯ PAGER=moar R
>?file

[lucc]

It looks like R calls its own pager which then calls $PAGER (or is that a NixOS thing / I am on NixOS). Can you confirm this? This kind of messes up our parent process detection because we only look at the parent process of nvimpager and not its parent process(es). Is there any way to detect the pager R uses?

[ghost]

It looks like R calls its own pager which then calls $PAGER (or is that a NixOS thing / I am on NixOS). Can you confirm this?

How do I check that out?

I have no idea how you did find that out. Except some gdb/strace or other black magic.

[lucc]

I was looking at the pstree/htop while nvimpager was running from R.

PS: That is also what nvimpager does to detect its parent process. This works for man, git, python, perldoc and ruby.