Bug 156333
| Summary: | less only works when getting piped input | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Fedora Legacy | Reporter: | Grant Mills <gmills> |
| Component: | less | Assignee: | Fedora Legacy Bugs <bugs> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rhl9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | DEFER | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-01-10 12:31:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** Bug 156335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This doesn't seem to be important enough to fix just on its own, so mark it DEFER. Should work fine with less-394 |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: less works fine when receiving input from a pipe: ls -alR / | less when I try to access less' help I get this across the top of the screen, minus the quotes: "ESC]2;<host>:/home/<login>^GESC]1;<host>^G" I get '~' starting each line all the down to the bottom and this along the bottom, again minus the quotes: "@/\less/\help/\file/\@ (file 2 of 2) (END)" If I try to give less a file directly to display: less sometextfile.txt The screen clears (terminal init stuff) and I get this at the bottom, again minus the quotes: "ESC]2;<host>:/home/<login>^GESC]1;<host>^G sometextfile.txt (END)" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): less-378-7.2.legacy How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Execute "ls -alR | less" 2. At the ":" Prompt, hit 'h' for help Actual Results: I get this across the top of the screen, minus the quotes: "ESC]2;<host>:/home/<login>^GESC]1;<host>^G" I get '~' starting each line all the down to the bottom and this along the bottom, again minus the quotes: "@/\less/\help/\file/\@ (file 2 of 2) (END)" Expected Results: Less' help. I can't remember if the help occurs in a whole or split screen, but I do recall seeing the key (or combos) along the left column with their description to the right. Additional info: less --version less 378+iso254 (Red Hat) Copyright (C) 2002 Mark Nudelman less comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. For information about the terms of redistribution, see the file named README in the less distribution. Homepage: http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less