From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:31:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git: add -N as a short option for --no-pager
Message-ID: <523dfe75-45a2-d780-2581-1bdc076dd659@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <36d622ac-f07d-7fd9-65dd-94f88b0e2f56@talktalk.net>

Am 25.04.2018 um 11:21 schrieb Phillip Wood:
> On 24/04/18 17:59, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>>
>> In modern setups, less, the pager, uses alternate screen to show
>> the content. When it is closed, it switches back to the original
>> screen, and all content is gone.
> 
> Are you setting LESS explicitly in the environment?
> 
>  From the git config man page:
> When the LESS environment variable is unset, Git sets it to FRX (if LESS 
> environment variable is set, Git does not change it at all).
> 
>  From the less man page the X option:
> Disables  sending the termcap initialization and deinitialization 
> strings to the terminal.  This is sometimes desirable if the 
> deinitialization string does something unnecessary, like clearing the 
> screen.
> 
> So with the default setup the output should remain on the screen.

Right. But I have LESS=RS because I do *not* want it to remain on screen 
by default.

-- Hannes