From: John S Cooper <John.Cooper@eu.citrix.com>
To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Cc: John S Cooper <John.Cooper@eu.citrix.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: problems with less
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8zy1m1v3.fsf@KONTIKI.cam.eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000426125833.21415.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com>
Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Since upgrading to cygwin 1.0 (on Win2K) less no longer displays properly.
>
> Is that cygwin 1.0.0 or cygwin 1.1.0? The difference is that the cygwin 1.0.0
> is the CD version and the cygwin 1.1.0 is the net release.
I pulled it off the net, so it must be 1.1.0.
> > When I `less c:/etc/termcap', the top 3 lines of the file are not shown, even
> > after typing `g' (start of file). However, if I type 'G' (end of file)
> > followed by 'g' then it is shown, although searching for strings doesn't
> > display the highlighted matches (they seem to be off the top of the screen).
> > It's pretty much unusable really.
>
> I just tried thist using NT4 sp4, cygwin 1.1.0 and there wasn't a problem.
> I saw the head of the file, the tail of the file and even the hightlighted
> search strings. BTW, the Command window is set for 2500 lines of buffer
> with 50 lines of display.
Hmm. I am using Win2K if that makes any difference. It seems that the display
is always messed up for me when the file being viewed has lines that wrap
(i.e., longer than $COLUMNS, which is 80 for me). I don't use a horizontal
scrollbar.
If I pipe a file with the majority of its lines longer than 80 characters I get
an extra newline everywhere a lines wraps, and after `G' `g', I can no longer
view the top of the buffer. Same behavior when running under bash (as opposed
to zsh, my preferred shell).
The B20.1 `less' doesn't exhibit this behavior. In fact, I've just discovered
that display problems with my B20.1 less only show up when I provide the -r
option. I guess I'll revert to the B20.1 version for now...
Please Cc me on any replies as I'm not a member of the list.
--- John
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2000-04-26 6:56 ` Michael Hirmke
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2000-04-26 6:48 Earnie Boyd
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2000-04-26 8:27 ` Tim Prince
2000-04-27 7:17 ` John S Cooper
2000-04-27 7:23 ` Charles S. Wilson
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