From: Pedro Melo Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 09:41:42 GMT Subject: Re: To page or not to page 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: > On May 2, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Jeff King 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, -- Pedro Melo Blog: http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/ XMPP ID: melo@simplicidade.org Use XMPP!