Re: [PATCH] pager: default to LESS=FRX not LESS=FRSX

From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru>
Date: Mar 27, 2007, 06:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20070327065419.GB51155@codelabs.ru>
In-Reply-To: <17928.7076.871485.136142@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill, good day.

Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:14:44PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:

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> > (1) Learn to use left/right arrow keys under "less -S" if you
> >     have occasional lines that are too long.
> 
> Hmm, looking at the code: why, if the environment variable LESS is
> already set, should this all be worth talking about?  Shouldn't the
> user be able to set LESS to whatever they want, once, and be done with
> it?  The current setenv() call to set up the pager does this, correct?

If it was named GIT_LESS, then yes, I could set it to the defaults that are sane for me with Git. But I do not like the idea of setting -F, -R and -X for all less invocations. But OK, the 'l' and 'h' bindings for less movements are fine with me. I do not like scrolling very much (using 14400 modem lines sometimes, so it is a bit slow), but if 'FRSX' are good defaults that people are used to, then I should live with them. Or probably start the git-FRX toolchain ;))

OK, I feel that this thread is exhausted itself, so I am shutting up.

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Eygene