On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:19:09AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > This is the tip of a smaller iceberg. See
> >
> >   http://public-inbox.org/git/52D87A79.6060600%40rawbw.com/t/#u
> >
> > for more discussion, and some patches that fix more cases (like "LESS"
> > without "R", or "more" that _does_ understand "R"). I think it was
> > discarded as being a little too intimate with the details of pagers, but
> > it does suck that the out-of-the-box experience on FreeBSD is not good.
> > Maybe we should revisit it.
> 
> Yup, the three-patch series at
> 
>     
> http://public-inbox.org/git/20140117041430.GB19551%40sigill.intra.peff.net/
> 
> would be a safe starting point that is low-impact.  I think what
> ended up being discarded was a more elaborate side topic that
> started from exploring the possibility of checking if LESS has 'R'
> in it to see if it is possible to help people with LESS that does
> not allow coloring explicitly exported.

Yeah, I only re-skimmed the thread, but I had the same impression. I am
traveling the next few days, so I will probably not get to it soon.  If
anybody wants to pick up and rebase/polish those patches as necessary,
be my guest.

-Peff
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