Re: "less -F" is broken
From: Stefan Beller <hidden>
Date: 2018-08-15 21:23:18
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 1:35 PM Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:
Sadly, as of less-530, the behavior of "less -F" is broken enough that I think git needs to potentially think about changing the defaults for the pager, or people should at least be aware of it. Older versions of less (at least up to less-487 - March 2017) do not have this bug. There were apparently 520, 527 and 529 releases in 2017 too, but I couldn't find their sources to verify if they were already broken - but 530 (February 2018) has the problem.
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.527.html http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.520.html http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ Release notes for 520 and 527 contains: "Don't output terminal init sequence if using -F and file fits on one screen."