Package: less
Version: 394-2
Severity: normal

Hello Thomas,

less doesn't display some lines. To reproduce:

* apt-get install doc-rfc-std
* gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/RFC/draft-standard/rfc2616.txt.gz |less
* /If an entity-body is encoded RET

The excerpt in question is:

1494
1495    If an entity-body is encoded with a content-coding, the underlying
1496    data MUST be in a form defined above prior to being encoded.
1497

Less says that line 1495 is displayed (as expected), but displays "data
MUST..." (weird). The text found is not displayed (weird). Pressing C-p
shows an empty line (expected based on the line number -- 1494 is empty,
but weird according to the actual contents -- the line "If an..." is not
displayed).  Pressing C-l shows the line "If an..." as 1494 (weird).
Repeating the C-p C-l sequence shifts the line numbers of the preceding
lines by one.

I've tried this on the Linux console. TERM is linux.

With kind regards,
Baurzhan.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages less depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.13.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information


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