> On 08 Feb 2018, at 09:50, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 11:20:08PM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote: > >>> 1. You have $LESS in your environment (without "F") on one platform >>> but not the other. >> >> I think that's it. On my system LESS is defined to "-R". >> >> This opens the pager: >> >> $ echo "TEST" | less >> >> This does not open the pager: >> >> $ echo "TEST" | less -FRX >> >> That means "F" works on macOS but Git doesn't set it because LESS is >> already in my environment. >> >> Question is, why is LESS set that way on my system? I can't find >> it in .bashrc .bash_profile .zshrc and friends. > > There's also /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile, etc. I don't know what's > normal in the mac world. You can try running: > > bash -ix 2>&1 </dev/null | grep LESS > > to see what your startup code is doing. I don't know of a good way to > correlate that with the source files, though. Or even to ask bash which > startup files it's looking in. Unfortunately, this command doesn't work for me. I ask around and most of my coworkers have LESS="-R". Only the coworker that doesn't really use his Mac and has no customizations does not have $LESS defined. Therefore, I think it is likely some third party component that sets $LESS. @Jason: Do you have homebrew, iTerm2, and/or oh-my-zsh installed? - Lars
