On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 01.05.2018 um 13:57 schrieb Johannes Schindelin: >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2018, Johannes Sixt wrote: >>> Am 30.04.2018 um 05:25 schrieb Junio C Hamano: >>>> * js/no-pager-shorthand (2018-04-25) 1 commit >>>> - git: add -N as a short option for --no-pager >>> >>> I find -P is not that bad after all. >> >> To me, `-P` would suggest the positive action --pager rather than the >> negative --no-pager. > > >> Your use case is quite the corner case, I hope you realize that, as it >> seems that everybody else is fine with having -FRX as default options for >> `less`... And with copy/pasting from the `less` output. So introducing a >> sweet short option for --no-pager, for the benefit of maybe even only one >> user, seems quite... unusual. > > Given the ambivalence (or inconclusiveness), I retract this patch without > offering a replacement for the time being. Although paged output is generally nice, I frequently find myself typing --no-pager numerous times during the day, so I, for one, welcome having a short option (and would be sad to see this patch retracted). As with Hannes, I too find -P a reasonably intuitive and easy-to-remember short option.
