On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've played with `less -F` for a while now, and there is an inherent > problem with that. Or should I say, xterm. > When less quits, the xterm "screen" blits back to the shell output > that was previously visible, so > git status > with less -F as a pager displays practically *nothing*. > I am aware that this is a less / xterm issue, but I wanted to let > you know. > Option -X should do the trick :-) Vegard -- "The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer's own creation." -- E. W. Dijkstra, EWD1036 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html