File stats disappear immediately in fish shell

[cunlem]

When I use f to see file stats I can see them printed for only for a fraction of second then they disappear. After I close nnn I can see them printed to terminal. This only happens with fish shell in bash it works as intended. Any fix?

[N-R-K]

It's because your $PAGER is exiting when the file is too small. If you're using less then remove -F from your $LESS variable.

This only happens with fish shell in bash it works as intended.

Check what the value of $PAGER and $LESS are under both shells. They are likely not the same, and hence the difference in behavior.

[cunlem]

Ah yes thank you that is very much the case. Is there a way to change how nnn invokes pager without changing the default? I guess one way to solve it is to write a wrapper script for nnn that sets up the environment (along NNN_* vars).

[N-R-K]

one way to solve it is to write a wrapper script for nnn that sets up the environment

Yes, this is a good solution. Another solution is to define a function in your shell rc file (similar to the quitcd functions: https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Basic-use-cases#configure-cd-on-quit).