Hi all: In message <787dd2f8-edf8-4caf-5d8c-b63cac39a...@marples.name>, Roy Marples writes: >On 26/03/2017 22:19, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 07:49:30PM +0200, Tomasz Konojacki wrote: >>> For someone with a different background, there is *nothing* nice about >>> fossil dumping thousands of lines to the terminal. In fact, I think it >>> scares off newbies who only used git before. >> >> I quite disagree. Terminal output is C&P friendly. Pager output tends to >> disappear with the pager. That's a real world UX issue I have with the >> git default settings. > >Pager output disappearing with the pager (I assume when asking the pager >to exit) is an issue with the pager. > >As Fossil is a single binary to do everything approach, I'm sure that a >Fossil pager would not suffer this defect.
IIRC the patch is using an external pager right? There is not a pager being build into fossil. >Yes, terminals have scroll bars and can page up, but that's the wrong >approach as well. > >When viewing a diff I want to start at the top and scroll down, not >start at the bottom and scroll up, hence a pager makes perfect sense. As long as it can be turned off so wrappers around fossil (fsl, emacs vc mode, other programs using the cli as a fossil interface) are not broken if terminal detection fails, I'm meh about it. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard =========================================================================== My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions. On 26/03/2017 22:19, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 07:49:30PM +0200, Tomasz Konojacki wrote: >> For someone with a different background, there is *nothing* nice about >> fossil dumping thousands of lines to the terminal. In fact, I think it >> scares off newbies who only used git before. > > I quite disagree. Terminal output is C&P friendly. Pager output tends to > disappear with the pager. That's a real world UX issue I have with the > git default settings. Pager output disappearing with the pager (I assume when asking the pager to exit) is an issue with the pager. As Fossil is a single binary to do everything approach, I'm sure that a Fossil pager would not suffer this defect. Yes, terminals have scroll bars and can page up, but that's the wrong approach as well. When viewing a diff I want to start at the top and scroll down, not start at the bottom and scroll up, hence a pager makes perfect sense. Roy _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users