From: David Kastrup Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:50:06 GMT Subject: Re: Harmful LESS flags Message-ID: <87ppk6a4nl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: Junio C Hamano writes: > David Kastrup writes: > >> Junio C Hamano writes: >> >>> Traditionally, because the tool grew in a context of being used in a >>> project whose participants are at least not malicious, always having >>> to be on the lookout for fear of middle-of-line tabs hiding bad >>> contents near the right edges of lines has never been an issue. >> >> My beef is not with "hiding bad contents" but with "hiding contents". >> It makes the output useless for seeing what is actually happening as >> soon as the option starts having an effect. > > My suspicion is that one of the reasons why S was chosen to be in > the default was to mildly discourage people from busting the usual > line-length limit, but I am not Linus ;-) Except that the busting becomes less rather than more conspicuous. -- David Kastrup