Hi Ævar,

On Thursday 17 May 2018 03:18 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> I've ended up with that $LESS setting via hackery over the years, so
> maybe I'm doing something retarded, minimal test case:
> 
>     PAGER=less  LESS="--no-init --quit-if-one-screen" git branch -l
>
> ...
> 
> So I think this is probably OK for most users, if the have very few
> branches they'll see it, and then if they use default pager settings
> they'll see the stderr output once they quit the pager. I don't know how
> common my (mis)configuration is.
>
I'm not sure this is ok, because I still see the stderr output with your
minimal test case even when I have enough branches to not fit in one
screen. The stderr output is of course above the pager output (after I
quit the pager) and gets hidden out-of display as I stated before. I
also get weird 'ESC[m' characters with you minimal test case. I'm not
sure what I'm missing.

What version of 'less' do you use? Is any other configuration that you
didn't mention affecting what your observation?


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