From: David Kastrup Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:32:51 GMT Subject: Re: Harmful LESS flags Message-ID: <8761lxa0gs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <20140425151124.GA11479@google.com> Jonathan Nieder writes: > Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> I am personally in favor of changing the default to drop the S. Silently >> hiding stuff from the user's eyes is really bad. With good coding >> standard and reasonable terminal size, it actually doesn't matter. > > Just for clarity: no, when we are talking about well formatted code, > -S is actually a way better interface. When we are talking about well-formatted code, -S does not matter either which way. > That's because indentation matters and makes it easy to take in code > structure at a glance, long lines that get cut off by the margin stick > out like a sore thumb already, and lines wrapped at an arbitrary > character are even more distracting to the point of being useless. Lines which are cut off are not "to the point of being useless", they _are_ useless. I am not arguing that wrapped lines are pretty. And I also consider the "malicious" or "hiding" angle at best a marginal concern. Overriding less' defaults should only be done for unequivocal benefits, and in this case I consider the result actually more of a detriment than anything else. -- David Kastrup