Re: Harmful LESS flags

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 24, 2014, 22:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20140424220241.GC7815@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4n1iv1re.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 02:47:01PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> And I do agree that the "chopped marker" would be a very sensible
> thing to show in the "-S" output; I would have chosen "$" myself for
> that to match an existing practice in (setq truncate-lines t) in
> Emacs, though.

Hmm. I do not use Emacs, but I explicitly avoided "$" because of its end-of-line connotations. E.g., in "cat -A" it means the opposite: this is the real "\n" end-of-line. But if there's existing precedent for "$", that would be fine with me.

-Peff

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