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From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Subject: Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2
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On Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 22:09:24 (+0100) Peter Baumann writes:
>Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> schrieb:
>>...
>> 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.

Tried as instructed: I get output when I should get output.  However,
when I should get no output, it clears/scrolls all the way down to the
bottom of the screen (LESS=-FRS git diff).


Bill