Re: [PATCH v2] pager: remove 'S' from $LESS by default

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, d9ba@mailtor.net, peff@peff.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pager: remove 'S' from $LESS by default
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 20:00:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mweuss7d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqppjqg6an.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Tue, 06 May 2014 10:34:24 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I still find the output from "git blame" disturbing, though.  The
> first thing I do in "git blame" output is to scroll to the right in
> order to identify the the area I am interested in, and this first
> step is not negatively affected, because the right scrolled output 
> automatically wraps long lines.
>
> But my second step is to scroll back to the left edge to find the
> commit object name and at that point, the new default output without
> "S" gets somewhat annoying, because most of the output lines from
> "git blame" are longer than my window width.

git blame sucks in anything but fullscreen either way.  It would help to
display _only_ the source code and have the other info as mouse-over,
but that's not something a pager can do.

It is a pity that the content can be columnized much worse than the
metadata: otherwise it would make much more sense to display the content
_first_ in line.  The metadata is useless without the content anyway.

-- 
David Kastrup