Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] scripts: let users override LESS env variable.

[Jean Delvare]

Le Saturday 14 December 2013 à 15:05 +0100, Martin Quinson a écrit :
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 02:28:49PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Kent,
> > 
> > Le Friday 13 December 2013 à 22:01 -0600, Kent R. Spillner a écrit :
> > > Add a QUILT_LESS_ARGS variable that can be used to configure what quilt 
> > > will
> > > set LESS to when LESS is undefined.  Defaults to -FSRX so no functional 
> > > change
> > > in the default case, but allows users to drop the -F argument as needed 
> > > (for
> > > example, when using a multiline shell prompt) without explicitly setting 
> > > LESS.
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> Consistency with the other QUILT_*_ARGS maybe?

Hmm. One of the beautiful things about ~/.quiltrc is that it's a piece
of bash script so you can set everything you need there regardless of
quilt specifically supporting it. For example we can set EDITOR there,
and it's documented. In my eyes, LESS is exactly the same, it is nothing
quilt-specific, but ~/.quiltrc lets you change its value in the context
of quilt.

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3 Support