Re: why does git set X in LESS env var?

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>
Date: Oct 12, 2023, 03:54 UTC
Message-ID: <07bf5744c7d123635740c62a940999e089339fa4.camel@scientia.org>
In-Reply-To: <20231012000416.GA520855@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hey.

Just noted that the popular bat utility apparently also uses -X to make -F work (but also mention that this break scrolling).

But it seem they have a check, an if less is version 530 or newer they don't set -X.

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-a-different-pager

Could be a way to go for git.

Cheers, Chris.

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