On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 01:21:51PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Le Saturday 14 December 2013 à 13:29 -0600, Kent R. Spillner a écrit : > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 02:28:49PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > I do not understand the value of this change. How is it better to set > > > QUILT_LESS_ARGS in ~/.quiltrc than to set LESS in ~/.quiltrc? > > > > > > As far as I can see, the feature was already there, just not documented. > > > If I'm missing something, please explain. > > > > I wouldn't say it is better. I wanted to disable the behavior of less -F > > but quilt's use of LESS wasn't documented. I chose to add QUILT_LESS_ARGS > > simply to be consistent with other Quilt env variables, and also to be > > consistent with other tools that page their output (e.g. MANPAGER, > > GIT_PAGER, > > etc.). If you wish to revert my change and simply document LESS I believe > > that would also suit my needs. > > I'd revert it, however Martin said earlier that he loved your change, > and Andreas was happy enough with it to apply it. So unless Martin > and/or Andreas changed their mind and tell me I can revert it, I'll just > leave it as is. I don't want to go against the majority ;-)
Oops, I didn't want to block things here. I found the patch interesting at the first glance, but your later discussion convinced me otherwise (yeah, I'm quite easy to convince). feel free to revert. Mt -- I am convinced that this paper does not met the usual quality standard, but I still recommand its acceptation since I'm marked as a co-author. Sorry. -- Bastard Professor From Hell _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
