On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 12:27:07PM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote: > > > 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 I've just added unset LESS in my .zshrc, but for most users it would be better if they don't set it at all.
