From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:49:36 GMT
Subject: Re: about c8af1de9 (git status uses pager)
Message-ID: <19f34abd0806220249u6586c981hb1a31e7a67bad696@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0806221107540.15126@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
> I've played with `less -F` for a while now, and there is an inherent
> problem with that. Or should I say, xterm.
> When less quits, the xterm "screen" blits back to the shell output
> that was previously visible, so
>        git status
> with less -F as a pager displays practically *nothing*.
> I am aware that this is a less / xterm issue, but I wanted to let
> you know.
>

Option -X should do the trick :-)


Vegard

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