Documentation: clarify pager configuration
The unwary user may not know how to disable the -FRSX options. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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`EDITOR` environment variables and then finally `vi`.
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core.pager::
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The command that git will use to paginate output. Can be overridden
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with the `GIT_PAGER` environment variable.
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The command that git will use to paginate output. Can
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be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment
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variable. Note that git sets the `LESS` environment
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variable to `FRSX` if it is unset when it runs the
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pager. One can change these settings by setting the
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`LESS` variable to some other value or by giving the
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`core.pager` option a value such as "`less -+FRSX`".
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core.whitespace::
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A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
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'GIT_PAGER'::
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This environment variable overrides `$PAGER`. If it is set
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to an empty string or to the value "cat", git will not launch
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a pager.
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a pager. See also the `core.pager` option in
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linkgit:git-config[1].
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'GIT_SSH'::
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If this environment variable is set then 'git-fetch'
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