How can I keep gh pr list output in terminal?

[kluka-CS]

When I use the the gh pr list I see a list of all the Pull Requests. Very nice.

But when I press Q the list is gone. In the matter of one second I forgot the PR number already that I wanted to check out.

Is this intended behaviour? With hub pr list the output stayed in terminal log.

I am using MacOS Big Sur, Terminal.app, and oh-my-zsh in case that matters.

[mislav]

Hi, the keypress Q is implemented by your PAGER program, not by gh. Check your $PAGER environment variable or the gh config get pager setting. I'm guessing that your pager is less.

How less behaves is dictated by the $LESS environment variable, if one exists. I'm guessing yours is set to LESS=FR somewhere in your shell configuration files. To avoid clearing your screen when you exit, you want to add "X" to the list of flags to less. You can do that by setting LESS=FRX (the default value we use if $LESS isn't set), or by doing gh config set pager 'less -X'.

Finally, you might not want to use a pager program at all for any gh output. To disable pager, do gh config set pager cat. The output of gh will be printed to your terminal directly. I do, however, recommend to keep using the pager, but to configure it in the way that suits you.

[kluka-CS]

Thanks a lot for your detailed and quick (!) answer 🚀

For other folks, the tl;dr:

Finally, you might not want to use a pager program at all for any gh output. To disable pager, do gh config set pager cat. The output of gh will be printed to your terminal directly.

This is the fix. I would not want to with my less default settings 🤓

[igorlvicente]

I have set the pager to cat but it now shows a percentage character at the end of the command. What could be the problem?

Context:
The command that I run is gh bb.
The real command behind this alias is pr view --json baseRefName --template 'git merge origin/{{.baseRefName}}'
The output for gh config list is:

git_protocol=https
editor=
prompt=enabled
pager=cat
http_unix_socket=
browser=

[mislav]

The % character is likely added by your shell (I'm guessing zsh) to indicate that there was no newline character before your prompt would be rendered again. To avoid this, ensure that the command output ends in a newline. If you are using the --template argument, you should be able to embed a trailing newline like so: {{"\n"}}

[igorlvicente]

That worked, @mislav. Thank you.

[altonotch]

Tried using gh config set pager cat on ubuntu 22.04. I see it in gh config list, but it doesn't work for a command gh run list ....
Tried using GH_PAGER env var - no help either.
Same result when trying to use --template.

Is there any other way to make gh output to stdout?

[adamgen]

For me using awk | column does the trick:

gh pr list | awk '{print($0)}' | column