lesskey: explain why --clear-screen isn't used

diff --git a/shell/lesskey b/shell/lesskey
index e548524446106c9cb917da2ab6ce2d58efd0179f..502bffa93c70655682c50b61ec1bf87756a9db20 100644 (file)
--- a/shell/lesskey
+++ b/shell/lesskey
@@ -48,8 +48,9 @@ l right-scroll
 #     Ignore case if the search string doesn't contain any uppercase letters.
 #     If there are uppercase letters respect case.
 #
-# Don't use search-skip-screen as it makes it easy to miss matches on the
-# current page.
+# Don't use --search-skip-screen as it makes it easy to miss matches on the
+# current page. Don't use --clear-screen which always prints a full screen
+# (padded with "~" lines).
 LESS = --no-init --quit-if-one-screen --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS --ignore-case
 
 # Store less' history file in this directory. HISTORY_PATH is replaced by