From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: Harmful LESS flags Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:13:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20140424221308.GA15061@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <4dc69237123e8962b2b2b901692ea78e.id@mailtor> <87lhuvb9kr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87tx9ia5zq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20140424213529.GB7815@sigill.intra.peff.net> <87lhuu9z69.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Junio C Hamano , d9ba@mailtor.net, git@vger.kernel.org To: David Kastrup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 25 00:13:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WdRtT-000361-4b for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:13:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755157AbaDXWNN (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:13:13 -0400 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:37873 "HELO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753869AbaDXWNK (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:13:10 -0400 Received: (qmail 13235 invoked by uid 102); 24 Apr 2014 22:13:10 -0000 Received: from c-71-63-4-13.hsd1.va.comcast.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (71.63.4.13) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:13:10 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:13:08 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87lhuu9z69.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:48:30PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > > I really think the right solution here is to teach less to make it more > > obvious that there is something worth scrolling over to. Here's a very > > rough patch for less, if you want to see what I'm thinking of. > > Still useless. I'm not actually interested in a more prominent "I could > be useful" indicator. So don't set -S, then. There are two questions here: 1. Can less do a better job of indicating what's in the input when -S is in effect? 2. What should get put into $LESS by default? I was specifically addressing (1). Your comment does not help at all there. It could have an impact on (2), but you didn't say anything besides "I don't like it". That doesn't add anything to the conversation. -Peff