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From: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
To: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Bart Trojanowski" <bart@jukie.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: about c8af1de9 (git status uses pager)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:49:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19f34abd0806220249u6586c981hb1a31e7a67bad696@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0806221107540.15126@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-22  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-21 21:21 about c8af1de9 (git status uses pager) Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-21 21:30 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-21 21:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-21 21:45     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-22  9:09       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-06-22  9:40         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-22 10:01           ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-23 15:23             ` Jeff King
2008-07-03  2:15             ` Tim Stoakes
2008-07-03 11:46               ` Jeff King
2008-07-03 12:11               ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-03 13:37                 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-07-03 19:08                   ` Jeff King
2008-07-03 20:10                     ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-22  9:49         ` Vegard Nossum [this message]
2008-06-21 21:42 ` Johannes Gilger
2008-06-22  7:24   ` Johannes Gilger
2008-06-26  3:53     ` Dan McGee
2008-06-26  6:04       ` Matthieu Moy
2008-06-26 10:17       ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-06-26 17:51         ` Jeff King

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