Re: [PATCH v2] pager: remove 'S' from $LESS by default

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

I still find the output from "git blame" disturbing, though.  The
first thing I do in "git blame" output is to scroll to the right in
order to identify the the area I am interested in, and this first
step is not negatively affected, because the right scrolled output 
automatically wraps long lines.

But my second step is to scroll back to the left edge to find the
commit object name and at that point, the new default output without
"S" gets somewhat annoying, because most of the output lines from
"git blame" are longer than my window width.

git blame sucks in anything but fullscreen either way.  It would help to
display _only_ the source code and have the other info as mouse-over,
but that's not something a pager can do.

It is a pity that the content can be columnized much worse than the
metadata: otherwise it would make much more sense to display the content
_first_ in line.  The metadata is useless without the content anyway.

-- 
David Kastrup