pager: add a function in compats to start pager
This will help us enabling pager when ui.pager API exists. Also we can try
plugging in the old pager API in this function and we won't have to change
anything.
#require test-repo
$ checkflake8() {
> if ! (which flake8 > /dev/null); then
> echo skipped: missing tool: flake8;
> exit 80;
> fi;
> };
$ checkflake8
Copied from Mercurial core (60ee2593a270)
$ cd "`dirname "$TESTDIR"`"
run flake8 if it exists; if it doesn't, then just skip
$ hg files -0 'set:(**.py or grep("^#!.*python")) - removed()' 2>/dev/null \
> | xargs -0 flake8