Re: "less -F" is broken
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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
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- Aug 15, 2018, 21:23 UTC
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 1:35 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> > Sadly, as of less-530, the behavior of "less -F" is broken enough that > I think git needs to potentially think about changing the defaults for > the pager, or people should at least be aware of it. > > Older versions of less (at least up to less-487 - March 2017) do not > have this bug. There were apparently 520, 527 and 529 releases in > 2017 too, but I couldn't find their sources to verify if they were > already broken - but 530 (February 2018) has the problem.
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.527.html http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.520.html http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ Release notes for 520 and 527 contains: "Don't output terminal init sequence if using -F and file fits on one screen."