Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 08:17:18PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
> > + /* Add red to bold, blue to underline, and magenta to standout */
> > + /* No visual information is lost */
> > + setenv("LESS", "Dd+r$Du+b$Ds+m", 0);
>
> Unlike the LESS_TERMCAP_* strategy, this completely breaks "git help"
> on my system:
>
> $ ./git help git
> There is no -D option ("less --help" for help)
>
> $ man less | grep -A1 '^ *-D'
> -Dxcolor or --color=xcolor
> [MS-DOS only] Sets the color of the text displayed. x is a single
>
> This is less 551-2 on Debian unstable.
I see.
Looking at their history it seems they only enabled this for non-MS-DOS
builds in 2021.
That explains why most people haven't found this yet, and are using
LESS_TERMCAP_*.
I'll revert back to LESS_TERMCAP_ and test with an ancient version of
less.
Thanks for testing.
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Felipe Contreras
