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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw•cz>,
	GIT Mailing-list <git@vger•kernel.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx•de>,
	msysGit <msysgit@googlegroups•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git grep -O -i: if the pager is 'less', pass the '-i' option
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:33:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqvbt8jjlg.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140514182654.GA9218@google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Wed, 14 May 2014 11:26:54 -0700")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com> writes:

>>> +		if (opt.ignore_case && !strcmp("less", pager))
>>> +			string_list_append(&path_list, "-i");
>>
>> I have a feeling that this goes against the recent trend of not
>> mucking with the expectation of the users on their pagers, if I
>> recall correctly the arguments for dropping S from the default given
>> to an unconfigured LESS environment variable.
>
> It's just missing an explanation.
> ...
> (That's -I, not -i, because it ought to work even when the pattern
> contains capital letters.)

Spot on.  The change, especially with "-I", makes sense.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-14 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-14 15:50 [PATCH] git grep -O -i: if the pager is 'less', pass the '-i' option Stepan Kasal
2014-05-14 17:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-14 18:15   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-05-14 18:26   ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-14 18:33     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-15 17:44       ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-05-15 17:53         ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-15 19:01           ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-05-15 19:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-14 18:35     ` Stepan Kasal
2014-05-14 19:07     ` Jeff King
2014-05-15 17:46       ` Johannes Schindelin
2014-05-15 17:56         ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-15 19:18         ` Jeff King

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