cac help: $PAGER only on too many lines

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cac b/cac
index bcf745d..ed3d6e7 100755
--- a/cac
+++ b/cac
@@ -73,7 +73,13 @@ __cac_cli__help() {(
   # test -t expects GNU coreutils
   if test -t 0 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     filter() {
-      $PAGER "$@"
+      help=$(cat)
+      echo "$help" |
+      if test $(echo "$help" | wc -l) -gt $(tput lines); then
+        $PAGER "$@"
+      else
+        cat "$@"
+      fi
     }
   else
     filter() {