bzr help and less don't seem to play well...

[Francis Devereux]

On 20 May 2010, at 12:18, John Szakmeister wrote:

> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Francis Devereux  
> <francis at devrx.org> wrote:
> [snip]
>> I'm on a Mac too and it works for me (I can advance to the next  
>> page just by
>> pressing Space).
>> OS X 10.5.8, Bazaar 2.1.1 (installed from MacPorts), /usr/bin/less.
>
> Thanks for trying this!  I found the issue.  I had 'export LESS=X' in
> my .bashrc.  I'm not sure how it got there... but I've had this
> .bashrc for years so it probably creeped in a long time ago.  If I
> remove that, it works fine.  It's weird that it only seems to have
> affected bzr, but I'm happy it works now.

Glad you've got it working :-)

Interestingly, I have LESS=-X (note the "-") in my environment.  Even  
if I do 'export LESS=X' (without the "-") before 'bzr help  
revisionspec | less' it still works.

Francis