On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Jamie Landeg-Jones <ja...@catflap.org> wrote:
> by <b...@meetlost.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I encounter a problem when viewing manuals via man(1) command. > > > > The case is simple, when I try to search something, I press ‘/’, and > then input the pattern, If it got something in the page, it will direct me > into the specified place, and then, I continue with ’n’, and it goes well. > > But the problem is, after a sequence of ’n’, the screen go to the end of > the manual pages, and keeping press ’n’, I got annoying “...skipping...”, > the page is full of skipping and parts of the end of the manual page. > > Yes. This has been annoying me too - your email prompted me to finally work > on a fix for it! > > Firstly, it isn't man(1) itself - man(1) uses more(1) as the pager. > more(1) is in itself actually the program less(1), running in "more > emulation mode". > > And less(1) isn't FreeBSD native code - it's imported into the project > from http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ > > I noticed the very latest version of less(1) has been checked into > freebsd-current, and the issue still occurs there. > > Anyway, the fix is two small patches to less(1), please let me know > if they work for you, and if you see any bad side-effects in man(1) / > more(1) and less(1) and I'll then try and get them applied upstream. > > The patches have been tested against FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE and 12-CURRENT > > cheers! Jamie > > --- contrib/less/forwback.c.orig 2017-11-20 08:52:33.978356000 +0000 > +++ contrib/less/forwback.c 2017-12-05 15:53:50.517550000 +0000 > @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ > * start the display after the beginning of the file, > * and it is not appropriate to squish in that case. > */ > - if ((first_time || less_is_more) && > + if ((first_time) && > pos == NULL_POSITION && !top_scroll && > #if TAGS > tagoption == NULL && > --- contrib/less/main.c.orig 2017-11-20 08:52:33.978356000 +0000 > +++ contrib/less/main.c 2017-12-05 15:53:57.291394000 +0000 > @@ -168,7 +168,10 @@ > } > > if (less_is_more) > + { > no_init = TRUE; > + scan_option("--tilde"); > + } > > #if EDITOR > editor = lgetenv("VISUAL"); > > How about just setting MANPAGER=less in your environment? _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
