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Subject: Re: Display text file using less in Cygwin terminal or xterm
 incorrect when lines are longer than window width
To: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 23:46:35 -0400
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From: C Linus Hicks via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Fri, 2021-08-13 at 23:27 -0400, C Linus Hicks via Cygwin wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-08-14 at 11:48 +0900, Takashi Yano wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 21:47:53 -0400
> > C Linus Hicks wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2021-08-09 at 15:17 -0400, C Linus Hicks via Cygwin wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2021-08-07 at 13:33 -0600, Brian Inglis wrote:
> > > > > Works Just Fine For Me!
> > > > > 
> > > > This is Cygwin 64 on Windows 10 in a VirtualBox VM, cygcheck output attached.
> > > > 
> > > > It has been a while since I updated Cygwin; as long as it serves my purpose, I generally don't focus
> > > > on that; it is just a tool I use.
> > > > 
> > > > Since I did open this thread, of course I need to make sure I am up-to-date. I have now done that
> > > > and I don't see issues with Cygwin terminal and less, although that is not really where I am
> > > > focusing. I mostly use xterm windows just because there are several characteristics I like about it.
> > > > 
> > > > I am still seeing issues with xterm and less, as I stated in my original post.
> > > > 
> > > Did I post this in the wrong list? I have not gotten a response since my update.
> > 
> > 1) Does your problem also happen even if the text file contains only
> >    ASCII chars?
> > 2) What does 'which less' say?
> > 3) What does 'infocmp' say?
> > 
> 
> Most of the files I view have only ASCII text.
> 
> lhicks@ESG-Win10-1 ~
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm
> 
> lhicks@ESG-Win10-1 ~
> $ which less
> /usr/bin/less
> 
> lhicks@ESG-Win10-1 ~
> $ infocmp
> #       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm
> 

I should further note that much of the time I am ssh'ed into one of several different Linux
machines, so in that case, I would be running less from the Linux machine and displaying in the
Cygwin xterm.

Hmmm, so now I'm starting to think the combination I have trouble with is an older less on a Linux
machine and Cygwin xterm. I don't control what is installed on some of these Linux machines. Do you
know if there were known issues with less, for example, the following is one that has significant
issues:

[appldev3@ebs-app-dev3 HAF]$ less --version
less 458 (POSIX regular expressions)
Copyright (C) 1984-2012 Mark Nudelman

less comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
For information about the terms of redistribution,
see the file named README in the less distribution.
Homepage: http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less


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