Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:

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> On Monday, March 26, 2007 at 01:44:34 (-0700) Junio C Hamano writes:
>>"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>>
>>> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru> writes:
>>>> 
>>>> > Remove unnecessary '-S' option that enabled less to chop long lines.
>>>> > It used to provide some confusion at least for the 'git diff':
>>>> > "Where are my long lines? Are they missed from the patch?".
>>>> 
>>>> It is not "unnecessary", but only "what _you_ are not used to".
>>>> As this breaks expectentions of people already familiar with
>>>> what git does by default, I cannot take this patch.
>>>
>>> Hear hear.  I completely agree with Junio.  I (and a number of
>>> other users that I work with) expect this behevaior by default.
>>
>>Two tips.
>>
>> (1) Learn to use left/right arrow keys under "less -S" if you
>>     have occasional lines that are too long.
>
> Hmm, looking at the code: why, if the environment variable LESS is
> already set, should this all be worth talking about?  Shouldn't the
> user be able to set LESS to whatever they want, once, and be done with
> it?  The current setenv() call to set up the pager does this, correct?

Yes.  That would make the third tip ;-).

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