Re: [PATCH 1/2] pager: move pager-specific setup into the build

> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> > From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> >
> > Allowing PAGER_ENV to be set at build-time allows us to move
> > pager-specific knowledge out of our build.  Currently, this
> > allows us to set a better default for FreeBSD where more(1)
> > is the same binary as less(1).
> 
> Nice. I was just too lazy to do something like this and "export
> PAGER=less LESS=FRX" then ignored it :-P
> 
> Slightly off topic, but pagers like 'more' does not understand colors
> either. But color.ui = auto does not know what and prints color code
> anyway. It would be nice if we had some configuration to describe
> "this pager can show colors, that pager does not" so I don't have to
> maintain separate .gitconfig files on two platforms.