diff --git a/src/bin/bat/app.rs b/src/bin/bat/app.rs
index 78a0df69d7..02d91e58f3 100644
--- a/src/bin/bat/app.rs
+++ b/src/bin/bat/app.rs
@@ -79,12 +79,18 @@ impl App {
     pub fn config(&self, inputs: &[Input]) -> Result<Config> {
         let style_components = self.style_components()?;
 
+        let extra_plain = self.matches.occurrences_of("plain") > 1;
         let paging_mode = match self.matches.value_of("paging") {
-            Some("always") => PagingMode::Always,
+            Some("always") => {
+                if extra_plain || self.matches.is_present("no-paging") {
+                    PagingMode::Never
+                } else {
+                    PagingMode::Always
+                }
+            }
             Some("never") => PagingMode::Never,
             Some("auto") | None => {
                 // If we have -pp as an option when in auto mode, the pager should be disabled.
-                let extra_plain = self.matches.occurrences_of("plain") > 1;
                 if extra_plain || self.matches.is_present("no-paging") {
                     PagingMode::Never
                 } else if inputs.iter().any(Input::is_stdin) {
diff --git a/tests/integration_tests.rs b/tests/integration_tests.rs
index 4a32de402b..c7cd7985be 100644
--- a/tests/integration_tests.rs
+++ b/tests/integration_tests.rs
@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ fn alias_pager_disable_long_overrides_short() {
         .arg("test.txt")
         .assert()
         .success()
-        .stdout(predicate::eq("pager-output\n").normalize());
+        .stdout(predicate::eq("hello world\n").normalize());
 }
 
 #[test]