found 565699 git-core/1:1.7.0-1 tags 565699 + upstream severity 565699 wishlist thanks
Anders Kaseorg wrote: > git exports LESS=FRSX if the LESS environment variable is not already > set. The -X (--no-init) is required to let -F (--quit-if-one-screen) > work sensibly, but breaks mouse wheel scrolling. > > To work around this, you can disable both of those options by exporting > LESS=RS. You will gain mouse wheel scrolling, but the disadvantage is > that you will always have to explicitly quit the pager, even if it is > displaying less than a screenfull. Thanks Anders, that makes a lot of sense. I should also mention that -X can be useful even without -F, to keep the last displayed part of a log visible on the terminal for cutting and pasting into later commands. So different people would probably want it different ways. On the interaction of -F and -X you described, see <http://bugs.debian.org/51462>. It is not my itch, but I could imagine less providing another option to get the best of both worlds by buffering until it gets a screen’s worth, EOF, or a certain amount of time passes, or something like that. For git, the bug here is that in terminals that support scrolling with a wheel without -X, git is disabling that. I think a good default _might_ be to use -RS for such terminals and -FRSX for others. This requires a way to detect terminals that support scrolling in ‘less’ with a wheel (xterm doesn’t AFAICT), so it might be hard to implement. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
