Bug 1244192 - more displays man pages incorrectly on vt100-nav
Summary: more displays man pages incorrectly on vt100-nav
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: util-linux
Version: 7.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-07-17 12:41 UTC by Ondřej Lysoněk
Modified: 2020-12-15 07:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-12-15 07:35:27 UTC
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2015-07-17 12:41 UTC, Ondřej Lysoněk
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Description Ondřej Lysoněk 2015-07-17 12:41:33 UTC
Created attachment 1053063 [details]
screenshot

Description of problem:
more displays man pages incorrectly on the vt100-nav terminal. Spaces between regular and highlighted words are missing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
util-linux-2.23.2-21.el7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set terminal type to vt100-nav
TERM='vt100-nav'
2. view some man page using 'more' as the pager
man -P more man

Actual results:
more doesn't display spaces between regular and highlighted words. The attachment contains an example screenshot.

Expected results:
The man page is correctly displayed, without spaces missing.

Additional info:
This should not be a bug in 'man' because when using 'less' as the pager, the described problem does not occur. Also, the same problem has already been reported for 'less', see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136266

Comment 2 Karel Zak 2016-01-27 17:37:29 UTC
Hmm... I'm not able to reproduce the problem (more(1) from RHEL7.2 on Fedora + gnome-terminal or xterm).

Comment 3 Ondřej Lysoněk 2016-01-28 12:18:33 UTC
I can still reproduce it on RHEL7.2 using gnome-terminal. I would try that in a virtual machine, maybe the problem is not tied to 'more' itself, maybe it's some library that comes in a newer version on Fedora. I don't know :)

Comment 5 Karel Zak 2020-07-07 11:26:19 UTC
Can we close this issue? It does not seem like critical enough to fix it in RHEL-7 update,

Comment 6 Ondřej Lysoněk 2020-07-07 14:30:43 UTC
(In reply to Karel Zak from comment #5)
> Can we close this issue? It does not seem like critical enough to fix it in
> RHEL-7 update,

Yes, no problem. However, it might be worth it cloning it to Fedora or even RHEL-8 - if I remember correctly, it was a failing internal (manual) test case that led me to file this bug.

Comment 8 RHEL Program Management 2020-12-15 07:35:27 UTC
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.


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