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

From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Date: Oct 12, 2023, 05:57 UTC
Message-ID: <1ef5b918d54cc1444c4a5b8df3a340ad@manjaro.org>
In-Reply-To: <07bf5744c7d123635740c62a940999e089339fa4.camel@scientia.org>

On 2023-10-12 05:54, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

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> 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.

Let me repeat that the described scrolling-related issues are misleading. I use this, configured through $BAT_PAGER, and have never experienced such issues in a few years of using bat(1):

       ├─bash
       │   └─bat -n --tabs 8 --wrap never message.txt
       │       └─less -R -F -X