Re: To page or not to page
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Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
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- May 2, 2008, 06:04 UTC
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On May 2, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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.
Is there any good reason to make git-status use the pager? The output is very rarely long enough to warrant it, and if I need a pager I can always just pipe it to less myself.
-Kevin Ballard
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