Bug#565699: /usr/bin/git-diff: pager ignores mouse wheel
found 565699 git-core/1:1.7.0-1 tags 565699 + upstream severity 565699 wishlist thanks Anders Kaseorg wrote: git exports LESS=FRSX if the LESS environment variable is not already set. The -X (--no-init) is required to let -F (--quit-if-one-screen) work sensibly, but breaks mouse wheel scrolling. To work around this, you can disable both of those options by exporting LESS=RS. You will gain mouse wheel scrolling, but the disadvantage is that you will always have to explicitly quit the pager, even if it is displaying less than a screenfull. Thanks Anders, that makes a lot of sense. I should also mention that -X can be useful even without -F, to keep the last displayed part of a log visible on the terminal for cutting and pasting into later commands. So different people would probably want it different ways. On the interaction of -F and -X you described, see http://bugs.debian.org/51462. It is not my itch, but I could imagine less providing another option to get the best of both worlds by buffering until it gets a screen’s worth, EOF, or a certain amount of time passes, or something like that. For git, the bug here is that in terminals that support scrolling with a wheel without -X, git is disabling that. I think a good default _might_ be to use -RS for such terminals and -FRSX for others. This requires a way to detect terminals that support scrolling in ‘less’ with a wheel (xterm doesn’t AFAICT), so it might be hard to implement. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#565699: /usr/bin/git-diff: pager ignores mouse wheel
[From my comment on the corresponding Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/326460] git exports LESS=FRSX if the LESS environment variable is not already set. The -X (--no-init) is required to let -F (--quit-if-one-screen) work sensibly, but breaks mouse wheel scrolling. To work around this, you can disable both of those options by exporting LESS=RS. You will gain mouse wheel scrolling, but the disadvantage is that you will always have to explicitly quit the pager, even if it is displaying less than a screenfull. If you think the default should be changed, consider talking to the upstream developers: http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#git. Anders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#565699: /usr/bin/git-diff: pager ignores mouse wheel
Package: git-core Version: 1:1.5.6.5-3+lenny1 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/git If I do git-diff I get the output in what appears to be an instance of less that ignores scroll-wheel events If I do git-diff | less the wheel works like it normally does in less but I don't get the colours. If I do git-diff --color | less -R I get the desired behavior. I hope that helps. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.2 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages git-core depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcurl3-gnutls7.18.2-8lenny2Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii libdigest-sha1-perl2.11-2+b1 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii liberror-perl 0.17-1Perl module for error/exception ha ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii perl-modules 5.10.0-19 Core Perl modules ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages git-core recommends: ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:5.1p1-5 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh ii patch 2.5.9-5Apply a diff file to an original ii rsync 3.0.3-2fast remote file copy program (lik Versions of packages git-core suggests: pn git-arch none (no description available) pn git-cvs none (no description available) pn git-daemon-runnone (no description available) pn git-doc none (no description available) pn git-email none (no description available) pn git-gui none (no description available) pn git-svn none (no description available) ii gitk 1:1.5.6.5-3+lenny2 fast, scalable, distributed revisi pn gitwebnone (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
