From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
d9ba@mailtor•net, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Harmful LESS flags
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 17:32:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761lxa0gs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140425151124.GA11479@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:11:24 -0700")
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com> writes:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>
>> I am personally in favor of changing the default to drop the S. Silently
>> hiding stuff from the user's eyes is really bad. With good coding
>> standard and reasonable terminal size, it actually doesn't matter.
>
> Just for clarity: no, when we are talking about well formatted code,
> -S is actually a way better interface.
When we are talking about well-formatted code, -S does not matter either
which way.
> That's because indentation matters and makes it easy to take in code
> structure at a glance, long lines that get cut off by the margin stick
> out like a sore thumb already, and lines wrapped at an arbitrary
> character are even more distracting to the point of being useless.
Lines which are cut off are not "to the point of being useless", they
_are_ useless.
I am not arguing that wrapped lines are pretty. And I also consider the
"malicious" or "hiding" angle at best a marginal concern.
Overriding less' defaults should only be done for unequivocal benefits,
and in this case I consider the result actually more of a detriment than
anything else.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-25 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 23:46 Harmful LESS flags d9ba
2014-04-24 0:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-28 21:38 ` Mark Nudelman
2014-04-24 5:06 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-24 19:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-24 19:50 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 21:35 ` Jeff King
2014-04-24 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-24 22:02 ` Jeff King
2014-04-24 21:48 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 22:13 ` Jeff King
2014-04-24 22:44 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 23:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-25 6:56 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-25 15:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-25 15:32 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-04-25 15:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-28 8:34 ` [PATCH] PAGER_ENV: remove 'S' from $LESS by default Matthieu Moy
2014-04-28 8:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-28 8:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-28 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-28 12:22 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-28 16:24 ` Jeff King
2014-04-28 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-29 12:29 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-29 17:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 7:35 ` [PATCH v2] pager: " Matthieu Moy
2014-04-30 15:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 15:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-30 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-05 18:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-05 20:10 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-05-06 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 18:00 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-06 18:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-05-06 21:55 ` Jeff King
2014-05-07 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 17:54 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-05-07 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
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