Re: "less -F" is broken

2018-08-20 Thread Mark Nudelman
On 8/16/2018 10:10 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: One option that I didn't try to go for - because I just don't know the less code base well enough - is to basically make the behavior of '-F' be something like this: - as long as all the lines are short and well-behaved, and we haven't seen enough l

Re: "less -F" is broken

2018-08-16 Thread Mark Nudelman
-X is a workaround for the previous behavior of -F, but it's not a great solution. By not sending the terminal init sequence, some things can be broken, depending on the terminal. For example, some terminals send the "wrong" sequences for the arrow keys when the terminal doesn't receive the i

Re: Harmful LESS flags

2014-04-28 Thread Mark Nudelman
On 4/23/2014 5:11 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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 t