On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > This is the tip of a smaller iceberg. See > > > > http://public-inbox.org/git/52D87A79.6060600%40rawbw.com/t/#u > > > > for more discussion, and some patches that fix more cases (like "LESS" > > without "R", or "more" that _does_ understand "R"). I think it was > > discarded as being a little too intimate with the details of pagers, but > > it does suck that the out-of-the-box experience on FreeBSD is not good. > > Maybe we should revisit it. > > Yup, the three-patch series at > > http://public-inbox.org/git/20140117041430.GB19551%40sigill.intra.peff.net/ > > would be a safe starting point that is low-impact. I think what > ended up being discarded was a more elaborate side topic that > started from exploring the possibility of checking if LESS has 'R' > in it to see if it is possible to help people with LESS that does > not allow coloring explicitly exported. Yeah, I only re-skimmed the thread, but I had the same impression. I am traveling the next few days, so I will probably not get to it soon. If anybody wants to pick up and rebase/polish those patches as necessary, be my guest. -Peff -- 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