Re: "less -F" is broken

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 15, 2018, 21:43 UTC
Message-ID: <CA+55aFzC79rRMgTdxGJV0g_ABW28OBGR=y4owp1OWMLWree0Ng@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87k1orqpxj.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:29 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

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> FWIW they're not linked from
> http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/download.html but you can just URL
> hack and see releases http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ and change
> links like http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-530.tar.gz to
> http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-520.tar.gz

I should have just tried that. I just downloaded the ones linked to, made a git archive of the history, and started bisecting. Which was all pointless extra work, since it was in the last release, but whatever.

> > I've reported it as a bug in less, but I'm not sure what the reaction
> > will be, the less releases seem to be very random.
>
> Via bug-less@gnu.org?

Heh. Another thing I didn't actually find. No, I just emailed Mark Nudelman directly, because that's what the FAQ says to do:

 "There is a list of known bugs here. If you find a bug that is not in
the list, please send email to the author. Describe the bug in as much
detail as possible, and I'll do what I can to help resolve the
problem."

and it doesn't mention any mailing list.

> Is this report available online somewhere?

It was not all that different from the email to the git list - just giving the trivial test-case and my (limited) bisection result.

The data you dug up is much more useful.

            Linus