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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>,
	norm@dad.org, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	l.s.r@web.de, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pager: disable color when pager is "more"
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:58:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160718185826.GB24726@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8twylv8y.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > This is the tip of a smaller iceberg. See
> >
> >   http://public-inbox.org/git/52D87A79.6060600%40rawbw.com/t/#u
> >
> > for more discussion, and some patches that fix more cases (like "LESS"
> > without "R", or "more" that _does_ understand "R"). I think it was
> > discarded as being a little too intimate with the details of pagers, but
> > it does suck that the out-of-the-box experience on FreeBSD is not good.
> > Maybe we should revisit it.
> 
> Yup, the three-patch series at
> 
>     http://public-inbox.org/git/20140117041430.GB19551%40sigill.intra.peff.net/
> 
> would be a safe starting point that is low-impact.  I think what
> ended up being discarded was a more elaborate side topic that
> started from exploring the possibility of checking if LESS has 'R'
> in it to see if it is possible to help people with LESS that does
> not allow coloring explicitly exported.

Yeah, I only re-skimmed the thread, but I had the same impression. I am
traveling the next few days, so I will probably not get to it soon.  If
anybody wants to pick up and rebase/polish those patches as necessary,
be my guest.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-16 19:12 Question: Getting 'git diff' to generate /usr/bin/diff output norm
2016-07-16 20:47 ` Perry Hutchison
2016-07-17  7:46   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-19 15:20     ` norm
2016-07-17 12:18 ` René Scharfe
2016-07-17 17:26   ` norm
2016-07-18  7:23     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-18  9:19       ` [PATCH] pager: disable color when pager is "more" Eric Wong
2016-07-18 13:16         ` Jeff King
2016-07-18 17:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-18 18:58             ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-07-19  2:37             ` Eric Wong

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