Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2024-05-24 01:04, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>>> And for usability, perhaps giving a specific command would change >>>> the default program a bare 'P' invokes for the rest of the session >>>> until another specific command overrides. Another usability hack >>>> may be "[interactive] pipecommand = less -FX" configuration variable >>>> gives the initial default for each session. >>> I think that would be way too complicated. >> It is modelled after how "less" and "vi" remembers the last pattern >> fed to their "/" command. You once give, say, "/test_<ENTER>" to >> find one instance of "test_", then "/<ENTER>" takes to the next >> instance. > > Huh, less(1) actually remembers nothing when the secure mode is > turned on. Are you sure you read me right? I wasn't talking about storing anything on disk for the "usability hack", and made it explicitly clear with "for the rest of the session".