From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: d9ba@mailtor.net
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Harmful LESS flags
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:11:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140424001126.GG15516@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dc69237123e8962b2b2b901692ea78e.id@mailtor>
(cc-ing Mark Nudelman, less maintainer)
Hi,
d9ba@mailtor.net wrote:
> Consider this diff, printed by `git diff`
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> -print('foo')
> +print('bar')
>
> Looks ok to merge and run.
>
> But, after disabling the pager:
Unfortunately there are other kinds of subtle bugs that can be hard to
see in a terminal, too.
[...]
> 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)
That sounds like a nice feature request for 'less': a marker on the
right margin when --chop-long-lines is in use and a line has been
chopped. I don't see it at
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/bugs.html#enhance so maybe no
one else has thought of it yet.
Mark, what do you think?
Thanks,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-24 0:11 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 [this message]
2014-04-28 21:38 ` Mark Nudelman
2014-04-24 5:06 ` David Kastrup
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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