On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 01:29 +0200, Dragan Simic wrote: > I'm not sure what do you mean by the non-cleared remains being > chopped > off... Could you clarify that a bit, please? Well if I do say: $ reset $ git diff HEAD~10 and from there scroll down a bit and then q to exit less (and the screen is not cleared), I see the output only so far as I've had previously scrolled down in less. Everything that would have come after that is of course not visible. The place where I exited may be some "well defined" border, like the end of a commit... or anywhere it the middle of a patch (making the left over remains on the terminal perhaps even ambiguous). What's worse, when (in less) I scroll down and up again, perhaps repeating several times, and then quit... I see (at least in my less/terminal combination) things twice and mangled up (i.e. when I scroll up the terminal (outside of less)). So AFAICS, not clearing the screen only works properly when never scrolling up again (in less). > As I already mentioned above, everyone is free to configure the pager > behavior in any way they like. Sure :-) > > > > Exiting if less contents than one full screen was displayed (i.e. > > > "- > > > F") > > > is there to save people from the frustration of quitting a pager > > > that > > > actually wasn't needed to be executed. > > > > Same actually here, at least strictly speaking, ... though I (and > > probably everybody else?) would really hate it, if that was > > removed. ^^ > > I'm afraid that I don't understand very well are you complaining > about > the presence of "-F" or not? No :-) As I've said, I like it that way and I and probably everyone else would be annoyed, if -F was not present. I just meant that strictly speaking the same reason why "S" was removed, could be applied to "F" as well. It is - like -R - not necessary for less to work with git. But it is, of course, what virtually everyone will want in practise. > Quite frankly, I can't stand scrolling in less(1) using the mouse > wheel, > but I do understand why some people like it. The main reason I want it is, that things don't get messy, when I forget being in less and mouse scroll. ;-) Thanks, Chris.
