Re: [PATCH 1/2] pager: move pager-specific setup into the build

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 1, 2016, 17:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AEFFTnGw01mTBrZu8QnUWmQav7bhZUyw7o91ph7DUwaA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160801010557.22191-2-e@80x24.org>

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:

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> From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>
> Allowing PAGER_ENV to be set at build-time allows us to move
> pager-specific knowledge out of our build.  Currently, this
> allows us to set a better default for FreeBSD where more(1)
> is the same binary as less(1).

Nice. I was just too lazy to do something like this and "export PAGER=less LESS=FRX" then ignored it :-P

Slightly off topic, but pagers like 'more' does not understand colors either. But color.ui = auto does not know what and prints color code anyway. It would be nice if we had some configuration to describe "this pager can show colors, that pager does not" so I don't have to maintain separate .gitconfig files on two platforms.

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Duy