There are other reasons for not opening the pager then the --no-pager
or --follow options (described below). If the pager is not used,
messages must be ellipsized.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 05:42:44AM +0000, Shawn Landen wrote:
> "Pager to use when --no-pager is not given; overrides $PAGER.
> Setting this to an empty string or the value cat is equivalent to passing --no-pager."