From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Francisco Boni <boboniboni@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add more examples of overriding LESS in core.pager
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 23:59:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <asQ56mv3VbiYmtwk@fruit.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261002234203.4064847-1-tmz@pobox.com>
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On 2026-10-02 at 23:41:52, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> +Another way to deactivate an option is prefixing `core.pager` with
> +`LESS="RX"` to remove `-F` or `LESS=""` to override all options.
> +This is useful if the `core.pager` command eventually runs `less` or
> +a command which respects the `LESS` environment variable but lacks
> +command line options to override `LESS` options.
> ++
> +One can specifically activate some flags for particular commands: for
> +example, setting `pager.blame` to `less -S` enables line truncation
> +only for `git blame`.
Sure, this seems like an improvement. I'm not very particular on the
wording, but it's good that folks have the information that they need.
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brian m. carlson (they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-05 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-19 12:19 pager: consider revisiting automatic LESS=FRX with custom core.pager Francisco Boni
2026-09-19 15:48 ` brian m. carlson
2026-09-19 16:37 ` Todd Zullinger
2026-10-02 23:41 ` [PATCH] doc: add more examples of overriding LESS in core.pager Todd Zullinger
2026-10-05 23:59 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2026-10-06 16:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-09-19 16:52 ` pager: consider revisiting automatic LESS=FRX with custom core.pager Francisco Boni
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