From: David Kastrup Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 05:06:12 GMT Subject: Re: Harmful LESS flags Message-ID: <87lhuvb9kr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <4dc69237123e8962b2b2b901692ea78e.id@mailtor> d9ba@mailtor.net writes: > It would be nice if we could change the flags to either > > a) avoid cutting off > b) indicate something has been cut off (<- I prefer this) > > I assume there are more people with a similar workflow who're still > unaware of this feature. > > I would joke about how 3 letter agencies introduced this flag to > backdoor open source projects, but, well.. Most terminals are wider than three letters. Still, it is a total nuisance. I am constantly doing -S RET on my git output. This should be left alone as an entirely personal preference quite unrelated to Git. There is no point in having Git configure a default different from what is used elsewhere. -- David Kastrup