From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John S Cooper To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Cc: John S Cooper , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: problems with less Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:28:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20000426125833.21415.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-04/msg00625.html Earnie Boyd 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com