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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, gitster@pobox•com, d9ba@mailtor•net,
	jrnieder@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PAGER_ENV: remove 'S' from $LESS by default
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:43:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbtt6dyq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398674062-24288-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:34:22 +0200")

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr> writes:

> By default, Git used to set $LESS to -FRSX if $LESS was not set by the
> user. The FRX flags actually make sense for Git (F and X because Git
> sometimes pipes short output to less, and R because Git pipes colored
> output). The S flag (chop long lines), on the other hand, is not related
> to Git and is a matter of user preference. Git should not decide for the
> user to change LESS's default.

>> We agree here.  So, does someone who actually wants this change want to
>> propose a patch? :)
>
> Here you are.
>
>  Documentation/config.txt | 13 ++++++++-----
>  Makefile                 |  6 +++---
>  perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm      |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

There seem to be a few more occurences (git-sh-setup.sh and pager.c):

$ git grep FRSX
Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt: * mingw will also give FRSX as the default val
Documentation/config.txt:When the `LESS` environment variable is unset, Git sets
Documentation/config.txt:command to `LESS=FRSX less -+S`. The environment tells 
git-sh-setup.sh:        : ${LESS=-FRSX}
pager.c:                        env[i++] = "LESS=FRSX";
perl/Git/SVN/Log.pm:    $ENV{LESS} ||= 'FRSX';

Searching for LESS seems to implicate a few more possible candidates in
contrib/examples:

contrib/examples/git-log.sh:LESS=-S ${PAGER:-less}
contrib/examples/git-whatchanged.sh:LESS="$LESS -S" ${PAGER:-less}


-- 
David Kastrup

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-28  8:44 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
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 [this message]
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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