Package: less Version: 406-0 Severity: normal It seems that when searching for text in a file containing long lines, with the -g or -w (or both) options enabled, the display gets corrupted. I've reproduced the same problem in xterm, gnome-terminal, and at the linux console. The corruption looks like this on screen:
/lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.23 -1-686/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/kernel/drivers/sc si/scsi_mod.kodrivers/ata/libata.ko /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/kernel/drivers/sc /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_vsc.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.23-1 (And similar all the way down the screen.) If I press ctrl-l, it clears up: /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_sil24.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.23 -1-686/kernel/drivers/ata/libata.ko /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/kernel/drivers/sc si/scsi_mod.ko /lib/modules/2.6.23-1-686/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_vsc.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.23-1 So the problem is that less has displayed the second line on the third line, and then overwritten it with "si/scsi_mod.ko", but neglected to clear the rest of the line. In the above example, I ran less in a 79x49 xterm, on my modules.dep file (attached, just in case..), and searched for "sata". The first search didn't show the corruption, so I hit "n" and saw it on the second try. If I do the same thing in an 80x26 xterm, I see the corruption in the first search too. 406-0 is the first version I can reproduce the problem with, and it still affects 416-1. The problem does not show up if I run less 394 on the same file, on the same system. That seems to rule out anything other than the less binary being at fault, but I'm not sure. I now find this bug really annoying, and see it nearly every day, and it's hard to believe I wouldn't have noticed it in the months since version 406 if it was happening all along. Without -g and -w, I don't see the problem.. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages less depends on: ii debianutils 2.28.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20071215-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand less recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo
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