Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> schrieb: > On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 20:12:36 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes: >>Hi, >> >>On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: >> >>> I can't seem to get this to work, no matter what I do, using the latest >>> 1.5.0-rc2 code. I have the environment variables LESS, PAGER, >>> PAGER_FLAGS, and I can't seem to get 'git diff' to not plough through my >>> screen each time it is run, no matter the combinations... Could someone >>> post the magic? >> >>Try this: >> >> PAGER=less LESS=-FRS git diff > > Replied to Johannes off-line and thought this was working --- sorry > for the false positive. It is in one regard: it completely suppresses > output if there is less than a full screen of output. > > If I do this: > > % export PAGER=less > % unset LESS > % git diff > > I get 30 lines of output in my current repository, as I should. > > If I then do this: > > % LESS=-FRS git diff > > I get nothing --- I do see a brief blink of output, but it's as if > less swallows it whole and I see nothing but the next prompt. > This is propably caused by activating "Enable Alternate Screen Switching" in xterm. If you have this feature enabled, you get a clean screen (no fragments of the displayed file are shown after quitting less). Try to disable it and see if it works. -Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Jan 24 08:35:45 2007
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