> On 08 Feb 2018, at 12:13, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> 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? Ha. I found it it! It is indeed oh-my-zsh: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/lib/misc.zsh#L23 Let's see if oh-my-zsh is willing to change that... - Lars
