This bug has finally been fixed upstream (as of version 400), as long as less is built with the PCRE regex library.
The current less package doesn't explicitly specify which regex library to use, though, and configure ends up picking the POSIX regcomp() function (at least on i386). This means the bug is still present on Debian systems, even though the version of less we're using already contains the fix. How would you feel about configuring less to use PCRE instead? I can write up the (trivial) patch if you like. -- Michael Constant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
