On Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > It is a cute idea that covers 70-80% of the cases, as you also have to > assume that you don't have to specify your own pager on a path with IFS > (e.g. "Program files" in your example) and give your parameter to the > pager at the same time, e.g. > > PAGER="C:\Program Files\cygwin\bin\less -FRSX" > > Because it has its own LESS environment to set FRSX and you can get away > with: > > PAGER="C:\Program Files\cygwin\bin\less" > LESS=FRSX > > "less" is not a representative example for this issue. In real life I > suspect that custom programs that we don't ship with git (or you don't > ship with msysgit) would lack such a workaround, (and that is why I didn't > say "98% of the cases"). OTOH, once you see that you would have to set PAGER: C:\Program Files\cygwin\bin\less -FRSX (I'm not using shell syntax here; think of a dialog that has name and value in separate edit boxes) then it is rather obvious that this cannot work. If you are clever (and you probably are - after all, you are modifying something esoteric: the environment!), then you will have heard about the magic double-quotes, and you will write this as PAGER: "C:\Program Files\cygwin\bin\less" -FRSX instead, and it will work as intended. Granted, "less" is not representative. GIT_EDITOR: "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++" -multiInst is probably more realistic (but I didn't test it). -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html