From: Petr Baudis Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:01:27 GMT Subject: Re: [cogito] paged output for cg-diff 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 told me that... > 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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor