From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 23:20:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35AB16A47E for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:20:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF9313C4BC for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:20:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5ENKAJc097784; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:20:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4671CD22.5030507@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:20:02 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Uffner References: <4671C5AF.9040203@uffner.com> In-Reply-To: <4671C5AF.9040203@uffner.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:20:11 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: annoying behavior in less(1) after v403 import X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:20:19 -0000 Tom Uffner wrote: > the recently imported new version of less (Mon Jun 4 01:42:44 2007 UTC > (10 days, 19 hours ago) by delphij) appears to have a bug that appears > when using the -e or --quit-at-eof option. > > if you exit less by reaching eof for the 2nd time, the cursor is left > at the end of the top line of the screen or window and the terminal is > not restored to cooked mode. this results in your shell prompt printing > on the 2nd line in the midst of whatever text happened to be on the > screen at the time. if you exit less by typing 'q' this does not happen. > > this problem did not exist in previous versions. please don't allow this > to slip into 7.0 release. i'd rather see it ship w/ less v394 than an > unpatched v404. > > tom I noticed that, and I noticed a new regression/feature where you can no longer run 'more' against a character device node unless you specify the -f flag. So for example, running 'more /dev/sndstat' produces an error now. It's minor, but my fingers, and I'm sure millions of other BSD users fingers, are trained to typing 'more' and not 'more -f' or 'cat foo | more'. Scott