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Subject: Re: Ctrl+R breaks `less' searches
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On Apr  5 13:36, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> >Use of Ctrl+R in a `less' search breaks the search unless a search has
> >already succeeded.
> 
> 1.7.3-1 fixed a lot of more important things, but unfortunately it
> didn't fix this one. A standard search must succeed before a ~R
> (Regex-off) search will succeed. So if I'm searching for something
> which requires regular expressions to be off, I'll never find it
> unless I first search for something that doesn't require Regex-off.

That's not a Cygwin problem.  I can reproduce this behaviour on Fedora
11 with less 429 as well.  Less 436 in Fedora 12 is apparently fixed.


Corinna

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