Package: less Version: 394-1 Hi,
1. The manpages for less and lesskey are not in sync. lesskey mentions $HOME/.lesskey, while less mentions $HOME/.less. ~/.less seems correct (peeking at both binaries with Emacs). http://www.sourcentral.org/man/debian-unstable/1+less http://www.sourcentral.org/man/debian-unstable/1+lesskey 2. The manpage for less is not very understandable to the casual user w.r.t. the location of the system-wide lesskey file. It mentions /usr/local/etc/sysless and a sysconf directory. The user not used to building packages him/herself won't know that this translates to /etc/sysless. Possibly the Debian manpage could be more explicit. 3. Possibly Debian should switch the system wide conf file to /etc/default/xyz (and then mention this Debian-specific location in the manpage). 4. Creating a .less file results in Cannot use lesskey file "/home/hoehle/.less" message touch ~/.less Rename it to .lesskey and it gets ignored. Invoking $ cp -p .less .lesskey $ less -k ~/.lesskey Bugs.txt produces Cannot use lesskey file "/home/hoehle/.less" Cannot use lesskey file "/home/hoehle/.lesskey" (Press RETURN) Afterwards, hitting return once returns to the prompt but produces garbage on the last line of my Gnome-terminal: URN) is left displayed in front of the prompt (if you have a short prompt). The prompt then always appears on the bottommost line of the tty, even when started via $ clear $ less -k ~/.lesskey .bashrc This is unusual. Normally less restores the tty completely, and the prompt is one line below the previous command line. Here's a snapshot: [last commands were: $ PS1='\u$ '; clear; ] hoehle $ less -k ~/.lesskey .bashrc ~20 empty lines... hoehle$ (press RETURN) -- in inverse video I tried to create a .less file according to the syntax describe in man lesskey, but I always got the above error. I went to http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less but found no mention of these bugs. Regards, Jörg Höhle. Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-27-686 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) As you can see, I'm running Ubuntu Debian. To me, an Ubuntu system is a kind of Debian system, and I prefer to submit bugs that I'm sure affect both upstream directly, instead of going through a heavy hierarchy.
