--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Sun Feb 19 15:09:41 2017 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Mon Feb 06 22:57:52 2017 -0500
@@ -1417,6 +1417,7 @@
     ctx = scmutil.revsingle(repo, opts.get('rev'))
     m = scmutil.match(ctx, (file1,) + pats, opts)
 
+    ui.pager('cat')
     return cmdutil.cat(ui, repo, ctx, m, '', **opts)
 
 @command('^clone',