On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 05:06:01AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Rubén Justo wrote:
>
> > > This feature can be annoying even with current versions of less,
> >
> > Hopefully, reducing the blast radius to a new 'P' option, will make it
> > palatable.
>
> Yeah, that would be perfect. I might even use it, then, for the rare
> cases when I want to look at a really big hunk.
In addition to that, I have two use-cases that make sense to me:
- avoiding a huuge but split-able hunk to go all through my terminal
before I can say: split, 's'. For this, perhaps the '-P' suggested
by Dragan is the way to go.
- a lot of mid-sized hunks that I only need to see, to decide, the
result of "head -3". Here, the pager would be acting as a 'filter'.
Perhaps I am stretching the meaning of 'pager' too far...
> I do still think it would be useful to be able to configure its pager
> separately (in my case, I'd use "less -FX" rather than my default
> setup, which doesn't use either of those options).
A new "interactive.pager" setting? Perhaps with higher preference than
"add.pager"? Just questioning, do not take this as an intention of
scratching that itch :-)
