From 9544316ef95c2aa1e75101a7dce545b4604b3ca6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Schneider Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 22:55:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add -F and -X to default $LESS environment variable (#6611) The option '-F' causes 'less' to automatically quit if the contents fit the screen and the option '-X' causes 'less' to not clear the screen after quit. I think both options are generally useful for terminal applications. They are in particular useful for Git as it runs all output through a pager. Git will run 'less' with '-FRX' by default if the environment variable $LESS is not defined [1]. Since oh-my-zsh used to set $LESS to '-R', Git would not override this setting. Consequently, Git would display even a single line of output in a pager and the user would need to explicitly quit that pager (see mailing list discussion [2]). Therefore, lets change the oh-my-zsh default value for $LESS to '-FRX'. This would be useful for oh-my-zsh Git users and likely for users of other applications that use 'less' too. [1] https://github.com/git/git/blob/36438dc19dd2a305dddebd44bf7a65f1a220075b/Documentation/config.txt#L819-L821 [2] https://public-inbox.org/git/2412A603-4382-4AF5-97D0-D16D5FAAFE28@eluvio.com/ --- lib/misc.zsh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/misc.zsh b/lib/misc.zsh index 3052b7710..90a8d62f3 100644 --- a/lib/misc.zsh +++ b/lib/misc.zsh @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ setopt long_list_jobs ## pager env_default PAGER 'less' -env_default LESS '-R' +env_default LESS '-FRX' ## super user alias alias _='sudo'