Bug 116460
| Summary: | less displays lines twice with iso-8859 text files | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bart van Kuik <bart.van.kuik> | ||||||
| Component: | less | Assignee: | Jindrich Novy <jnovy> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | pknirsch | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2005-09-08 15:32:21 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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Created attachment 97904 [details]
Screenshot of RH9 less listing the file
Created attachment 97905 [details]
Textfile in which the bug occurs. Output of 'file' on this file: "Issue17.txt: ISO-8859 English text, with CRLF line terminators"
This is now fixed in the rawhide less. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7+ Description of problem: Use the attached text file. In a terminal emulator or on the console, type 'less Issue17.txt'. Press space, and then press arrow up. The upper line is shown twice, while it should have been shown only once. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): less-378-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Save the attached textfile to disk 2. Open the textfile with less: 'less Issue17.txt' 3. Press space or PgDown 4. Press arrow-up. 5. The uppermost line is shown twice Actual Results: The uppermost line in the screen is shown twice. Expected Results: Instead, the line that comes before the uppermost line should have shown. Additional info: Running RH9 with a custom 2.6.1 kernel. Output of uname -a: $ uname -a Linux bkuik-nl.nl.oracle.com 2.6.1 #0 Sun Jan 11 08:51:46 CET 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ export | grep -i lang declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8" $ file Issue17.txt Issue17.txt: ISO-8859 English text, with CRLF line terminators The bug doesn't occur when typing the following: $ LESSCHARSET=iso8859 less Issue17.txt In an email exchange with the upstream author, it was determined that later versions of less (for example version 381) don't exhibit this problem, it's RedHat specific.