Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes: > And if I set PAGER="less -F" and run a command which produces output > that does not fill the terminal completely I don't see any output at all. > It seems the pager decides to exit immediately and we're writing to a > dead fd instead of stdout. I'm not sure what to do here. However, piping > svn's output to 'less -F' shows the same behaviour, so perhaps there > is nothing we can do about this.
I get the same even without Subversion: less -F repo/README.txt generally produces no visible output, however in some terminal emulators I do occasionally see the screen flicker. To get visible output with -F I need -X as well. -- Philip Martin | Subversion Committer WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*