[systemd-devel] [PATCH] pager: remove --no-init setting from LESS options

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 2014 7:02 AM, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com> wrote:
>>
>> I use konsole. It has a nice feature that when the scrollbars have been
>> disabled -- like in the case of a full-console app like vim or less --
>> it makes the mouse wheel send up and down key strokes, so that
>> scrolling happens. It's really nice. I open up less, and then I can
>> scroll through it using the mouse wheel.
>>
>> This doesn't work with systemd's pager, however, because systemd passes
>> --no-init to less. This patch removes this "X" flag.
>
> On the one hand, scrolling like that is convenient, in gnome-terminal as
> well – on the other hand, removing -X causes `less` open the "alt screen"
> mode even for really short outputs, which can become annoying quickly…
>

Should not it simply respect existing LESS value? Or, for that matter,
SYSTEMD_LESS if someone thinks of a good reason to have different
settings?