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Re: [PATCH] pager: drop "wait for output to run less" hack

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 5, 2012, 15:52 UTC
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> I checked, and even RHEL5 is on less 436. So besides people on antique
> "I installed less from source more than 5 years ago" systems, my only
> concern would be that some other pager depends on this hack in a weird
> way. But I have never heard of such a thing, so...

On my RHEL5 box at work: $ less --version less 394 Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Mark Nudelman

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