Document a workaround for using custom pagers on Windows #4941
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Custom pagers are not supported on Windows, because using a pager in git requires the git command to run in a PTY, but the PTY package we are using doesn't support Windows.
However, there's a workaround to use a custom pager by using a Powershell script configured as an external diff command. Document this in the
Custom_Pagers.md
document, and export aLAZYGIT_COLUMNS
environment variable to allow such scripts to work better.