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[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, Kyle Evans wrote:

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> >> Any chance you'd consider `less -E` for mergemaster, instead of
> >> unsalted less? After going through a second round of updates since
> >> this, that one feels super repetitive as you end up with two
> >> keystrokes at the end per file that differs as opposed to the previous
> >> one. This is pretty nit-picky, so I won't be upset if you say no. =)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Kyle Evans
> >
> >
> > Hmm, "-E" would make sense for mergemaster, even though I hate that 
> > behavior for man.  But if mergemaster's pager is going to use different 
> > options than other applications, then it also should get its own variable; 
> > mergemaster should use MERGEMASTERPAGER the way that man uses MANPAGER.  
> > Agree?
> 
> I'm inclined to agree on both counts. While I don't like a
> proliferation of things to set to override defaults like this in the
> general case, it seems to make sense for mergemaster. The application
> of pager here is a different use case than most.

What about freebsd-update then? Usually one should type 'q' twice on two empty 
lists there.


-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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