Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/05/09/12:24:24
Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 03:38:21PM +0100, John S Cooper wrote:
> >
> >I think the display problems I was having with `less' disappear when I do the
> >following:
> >
> > 1. Set TERM=cygwin rather than TERM=linux.
> > 2. Don't use `less -r' as an alias for `less'.
> >
> >Perhaps this is something for a README/FAQ?
>
> So, if you don't go out of your way to use less in a non-standard way, it
> works fine. That doesn't seem like FAQ material to me.
The man page for 'less' says '-r' causes the program to output ASCII
control characters found in a file as the control character rather than
a symbol sequence like '^A', etc. This is a standard documented
feature. What was missing in this case was an understanding of what
this means to the terminal emulator. For instance, if a <CR> (^R) was
embedded in a line, the remainder of the line would overwrite its
beginning. If there is a form feed (^L if I remember correctly), the
screen might be cleared (depending on the TERM type, of course). And so
on.
I agree that this is not a FAQ item. The feature is already
documented. It just requires a little analysis and thought, to
understand the potential consequences.
--
Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com
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