Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75193
problems searching for non alphabetic characters in unicode locale
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:12 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: When viewing a manual page using less as the pager, I like to search for command parameters by typing: slash-hyphen-flag (such as /-N). In Red Hat 7, this worked, but after a clean install of Red Hat 8, it does not. There are also problems searching for other non-alphabetic characters such as single quotes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 358-28 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man wget 2. /-N Actual Results: less displays the error message "Pattern not found" Expected Results: cursor is moved to the next instance of "-N" Additional info: I notice that Red Hat 8 now uses the Unicode character set in many places by default. I tried changing $LANG from en_AU.UTF-8 (this was selected when I chose English-Australia as the default language during installation) to en_AU, and I was again able to search for special characters such as the hyphen. The same problem appears to exist in the equivalent en_US locales.
not a bug in less, but in man/nroff (try man -P more manpage to see that the same occurs with more)
groff-1.18.1-1 or newer should have a patch that changes the hyphen character, so that you can search it in "less" again. greetings, Florian La Roche