On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > That said, "LESS=FRS" doesn't really help that much. It still clears the > > screen. Using "LESS=FRSX" fixes that, but the alternate display sequence > > is actually nice _if_ the pager is used. > > Hmm, what terminal emulator do you use? The reasonable ones should > restore the original screen. At least xterm does, and I *think* > gnome-terminal does too (although I'm too lazy to boot up my notebook > and confirm). Not xterm, at least. Not gnome-terminal either, for that matter. I just tried. LESS=FRS git diff clears the screen and leaves the thing at the end. LESS=FRSX git diff works fine, but for people who _like_ the alternate screens (and I do, once I really use a pager) it also disables the alternate screen. It might depend on the termcap, of course. I'm running FC5. Linus - 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