Am 25.05.2022 um 15:41 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
On 2022-05-25 15:22:26 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 25.05.22 um 14:51 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:

user's LESS environment variable, like "-i"). If it passes
options via the LESS environment variable, then the manual
should say something like

    Override the options passed to less via the LESS environment
    variable, which is set to "FRSXMK" by default.

Mentioning the LESS variable here is an implementation detail and I don't
see how it makes it makes it any clearer what options are passed to less.

This is not just an implementation detail, because it has a visible
effect on the behavior when the user has a LESS environment variable.

   export LESS=FRSXMK ; less

is not the same thing as

   less -FRSXMK

So the user needs to know that systemd chooses something equivalent
to the former.


No, not really. The documentation says pretty clearly and explicitly which options are passed to less and ways to override that (and it does so reliably).

It doesn't go into details about LESS because that would only be a distraction.


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