From: E R <pc88mxer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:28:02 GMT
Subject: Re: odd behavior with export LESS=i
Message-ID: <3a69fa7c0907141028u172fc32eg87db0364a189d94c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3a69fa7c0907141018l4f6fb773o219b6a18effc393d@mail.gmail.com>

Ok - I've just read the git-config man page (the section on
core.pager) which explains everything..

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:18 PM, E R<pc88mxer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this a problem with less or with git?
>
> From the shell if I run:
>
> export LESS
> LESS=i git log
>
> then I see things like ESC[33m instead of colored text.
>
> If I run:
>
> unset LESS
> git log
>
> then I get colored text.
>
> Note that the environment variable LESS is used to pass default
> command line switches to less.
>