Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Monday, March 26, 2007 at 01:44:34 (-0700) Junio C Hamano writes: >>"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> >>>> > Remove unnecessary '-S' option that enabled less to chop long lines. >>>> > It used to provide some confusion at least for the 'git diff': >>>> > "Where are my long lines? Are they missed from the patch?". >>>> >>>> It is not "unnecessary", but only "what _you_ are not used to". >>>> As this breaks expectentions of people already familiar with >>>> what git does by default, I cannot take this patch. >>> >>> Hear hear. I completely agree with Junio. I (and a number of >>> other users that I work with) expect this behevaior by default. >> >>Two tips. >> >> (1) Learn to use left/right arrow keys under "less -S" if you >> have occasional lines that are too long. > > Hmm, looking at the code: why, if the environment variable LESS is > already set, should this all be worth talking about? Shouldn't the > user be able to set LESS to whatever they want, once, and be done with > it? The current setenv() call to set up the pager does this, correct? Yes. That would make the third tip ;-). - 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