From: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup•kalibalik.dk>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] Do not override LESS
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:21:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763pshw10.fsf@cup.kalibalik.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtzdc14k5.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sat\, 23 Aug 2008 02\:08\:58 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> That's not a solution. Alice and Bob can also change their
> environment to their taste as well. Why punish existing users?
As I said, when you ask for "less", I tend to think it is correct to
get "less". Not "LESS=FSRX less", with a special case if LESS is
already defined.
> If the problem you are trying to solve is that there is no existing
> combination of the environment variables for them to do so, you can
> solve it by introducing a new configuration or environment to
> support such usage and documenting it, can't you?
I was trying to clean up things, not to make them even more confusing.
If backwards compatibility is more important to you, I can understand.
Cheers,
Anders.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-23 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-22 12:25 [PATCH RESEND] Do not override LESS Anders Melchiorsen
2008-08-23 5:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-23 8:28 ` Anders Melchiorsen
2008-08-23 9:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-08-23 10:21 ` Anders Melchiorsen [this message]
2008-08-24 5:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-24 5:38 ` [PATCH] Documentation: clarify pager.<cmd> configuration Jonathan Nieder
2008-08-24 18:59 ` [PATCH RESEND] Do not override LESS Junio C Hamano
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