From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: d9ba@mailtor.net
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Harmful LESS flags
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 07:06:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhuvb9kr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dc69237123e8962b2b2b901692ea78e.id@mailtor> (d9ba@mailtor.net's message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2014 23:46:02 -0000")
d9ba@mailtor.net writes:
> It would be nice if we could change the flags to either
>
> a) avoid cutting off
> b) indicate something has been cut off (<- I prefer this)
>
> I assume there are more people with a similar workflow who're still
> unaware of this feature.
>
> I would joke about how 3 letter agencies introduced this flag to
> backdoor open source projects, but, well..
Most terminals are wider than three letters.
Still, it is a total nuisance. I am constantly doing
-S RET
on my git output. This should be left alone as an entirely personal
preference quite unrelated to Git. There is no point in having Git
configure a default different from what is used elsewhere.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-24 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 23:46 Harmful LESS flags d9ba
2014-04-24 0:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-28 21:38 ` Mark Nudelman
2014-04-24 5:06 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-04-24 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-24 19:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-24 19:50 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 21:35 ` Jeff King
2014-04-24 21:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-24 22:02 ` Jeff King
2014-04-24 21:48 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 22:13 ` Jeff King
2014-04-24 22:44 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-24 23:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-25 6:56 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-25 15:11 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-25 15:32 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-25 15:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-28 8:34 ` [PATCH] PAGER_ENV: remove 'S' from $LESS by default Matthieu Moy
2014-04-28 8:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-28 8:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-28 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-04-28 12:22 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-28 16:24 ` Jeff King
2014-04-28 18:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-29 12:29 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-29 17:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 7:35 ` [PATCH v2] pager: " Matthieu Moy
2014-04-30 15:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-30 15:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-04-30 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-05 18:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-05-05 20:10 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-05-06 17:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-06 18:00 ` David Kastrup
2014-05-06 18:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-05-06 21:55 ` Jeff King
2014-05-07 17:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-07 17:54 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-05-07 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
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