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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2024-04-22 12:39:30 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2024-04-22 15:16:54 +0200
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man: say explicitly that $LESS + $LESSCHARSET have no effect on less invocations by systemd tools
Fixes: #29479
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diff --git a/man/common-variables.xml b/man/common-variables.xml
index 58a285c833..2d26bf7242 100644
--- a/man/common-variables.xml
+++ b/man/common-variables.xml
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
+ <para>Note that setting the regular <varname>$LESS</varname> environment variable has no effect
+ for <command>less</command> invocations by systemd tools.</para>
+
<para>See
<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>less</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more discussion.</para></listitem>
@@ -155,7 +158,10 @@
<term><varname>$SYSTEMD_LESSCHARSET</varname></term>
<listitem><para>Override the charset passed to <command>less</command> (by default <literal>utf-8</literal>, if
- the invoking terminal is determined to be UTF-8 compatible).</para></listitem>
+ the invoking terminal is determined to be UTF-8 compatible).</para>
+
+ <para>Note that setting the regular <varname>$LESSCHARSET</varname> environment variable has no effect
+ for <command>less</command> invocations by systemd tools.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id='lesssecure'>