Re: To page or not to page

From: Pedro Melo <melo@simplicidade.org>
Date: May 2, 2008, 09:41 UTC
Message-ID: <702ACF8F-B6D0-42FD-9B38-7C5A4F775E90@simplicidade.org>
In-Reply-To: <8C3474E2-3A4F-44E8-B301-C36939C7BA11@sb.org>

On May 2, 2008, at 7:04 AM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

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> On May 2, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 01:41:05AM -0400, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anybody have any comments or opinions about this either way?
>>>
>>> I agree with you; I don't like it at all.
>>
>> I do not care either way.  As I do not have LESS defined in my  
>> environment
>> (which makes git use its built-in that contains FX), I actually never
>> noticed the difference before or after that patch.
>
> Even if I put FX into LESS (I have it set normally so it contains  
> R), it still doesn't behave correctly. I compulsively clear my  
> terminal screen whenever I don't need the current contents, but  
> with FX in LESS, `git status` throws the output at the bottom of my  
> terminal, leaving a lot of blank space at the top. This is  
> extremely irritating to me.

hmms... I remember you being a Mac user. I'm on 10.4.11 and with

LESS=iFMRSXW LESSCHARSET=utf-8

it works as if no pager has been set.

Personally, I like the pager because the best part of git-status is at the top, so if I hit git-status thats the one I want to see.

Best regards,

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