(cc-ing Mark Nudelman, less maintainer)
Hi,

d...@mailtor.net wrote:

> Consider this diff, printed by `git diff`
>
>        #!/usr/bin/env python
>       -print('foo')
>       +print('bar')
>
> Looks ok to merge and run.
>
> But, after disabling the pager:

Unfortunately there are other kinds of subtle bugs that can be hard to
see in a terminal, too.

[...]
> It would be nice if we could change the flags to either
>
>  a) avoid cutting off
>  b) indicate something has been cut off (<- I prefer this)

That sounds like a nice feature request for 'less': a marker on the
right margin when --chop-long-lines is in use and a line has been
chopped.  I don't see it at
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/bugs.html#enhance so maybe no
one else has thought of it yet.

Mark, what do you think?

Thanks,
Jonathan
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