Re: [cogito] paged output for cg-diff

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 29, 2005, 14:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20050529140127.GI1036@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vu0kyuhtq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, May 20, 2005 at 03:50:57PM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> On the other hand, if your user is a "less" user, and if the
> user wants it to honor ANSI "color" escape sequences, it would
> be more helpful to the user if you educate/encourage the user to
> have "LESS=R" in the environment and make that in effect
> everywhere less is used not just in Cogito.  Giving that support
> silently just in Cogito at the first thought may seem to be more
> helpful but in reality it is not.
> 
> So I would suggest to use the above form without defining your
> own PAGER shell function, and add a tip for "less" users to have
> "LESS=R" in their environment somewhere in the documentation.

Using the $LESS variable didn't occur to me and I like the idea. :-) I think the most reasonable thing for Cogito will be to set LESS=R$LESS if the user passed -c to the given command.

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