From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 18:17:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pager: set LV=-c alongside LESS=FRSX
Message-ID: <87iotvbqsa.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqha9fg225.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>  - Scripted Porcelains get LESS=-FRSX while C Porcelains get
>    LESS=FRSX as the default (the leading dash being the
>    difference), which looks somewhat inconsistent.  Not a new
>    problem, though.

Even the less manpage is inconsistent about whether $LESS should start
with a dash (there are examples with and without it).
Implementation-wise, less uses the same function to process an option
argument (including the leading dash) and the value of $LESS, so the
form with the leading dash is probably preferred.

Andreas.

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