Bug#1011525: systemd: when running journalctl, $LESS is unconditionally set to FRSXMK

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2022-05-25 15:22:26 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 25.05.22 um 14:51 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> 
> > user's LESS environment variable, like "-i"). If it passes
> > options via the LESS environment variable, then the manual
> > should say something like
> > 
> >    Override the options passed to less via the LESS environment
> >    variable, which is set to "FRSXMK" by default.
> 
> Mentioning the LESS variable here is an implementation detail and I don't
> see how it makes it makes it any clearer what options are passed to less.

This is not just an implementation detail, because it has a visible
effect on the behavior when the user has a LESS environment variable.

  export LESS=FRSXMK ; less

is not the same thing as

  less -FRSXMK

So the user needs to know that systemd chooses something equivalent
to the former.

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