> On 08 Feb 2018, at 17:19, Kevin Daudt <me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. I proposed this instead: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/pull/6611 Maybe you can chime in there? Thanks, Lars
