From: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:09:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.4.3
Message-ID: <pan.2006.10.22.21.09.32.177539@alarsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061021002251.GO20017@pasky.or.cz>

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:22:51 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

>> That said, "LESS=FRS" doesn't really help that much. It still clears the 
>> screen. Using "LESS=FRSX" fixes that, but the alternate display sequence 
>> is actually nice _if_ the pager is used.
> 
> Hmm, what terminal emulator do you use? The reasonable ones should
> restore the original screen.

And indeed they do.
The problem is, when the original screen is restored, the diff output that
was paged through less -FRS goes poof as well.

Cheers
 Anders