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Bug#97531; Package less. debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.orgThomas Schoepf Subject: Bug#97531: search ignores current line Reply-To: Joey Hess , 97531@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: Joey Hess Orignal-Sender: Joey Hess Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Thomas Schoepf Resent-Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 02:03:59 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@bugs.debian.org X-Debian-PR-Message: report 97531 X-Debian-PR-Package: less X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Received: via spool by submit@bugs.debian.org id=B.98989144814142 (code B ref -1); Tue, 15 May 2001 02:03:59 GMT From: Joey Hess To: Debian Bug Tracking System X-Reportbug-Version: 1.15 X-Mailer: reportbug 1.15 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 21:52:52 -0400 Message-Id: Sender: Joey Hess Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: less Version: 358-6.1 Severity: minor Searching with '/' ignores the current line. This is, of course, often good -- it lets me search again and move forward in the file. But, it tripped me up just now. I lessed a file, and the thing I was looking for was in the first line of the file. But I didn't know that, and I was assuming it was quite a way down, so I didn't bother to read a thing, just ran a search, and it said "Pattern not found". And I took it at its word (silly me). Only later, after exiting less and eventually running grep did I notice it was in the first line of the file. I think it would be nice if, after searching the rest of the file, less went back and checked to see if the pattern was in the current line, and said something like "Pattern only found in current line (you doofus)". -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux silk 2.4.3 #2 Wed Apr 25 18:53:02 EDT 2001 i686 Versions of packages less depends on: ii debianutils 1.15 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.2.3-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20010318-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand Acknowledgement sent to Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>. -t From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Joey Hess Subject: Bug#97531: Acknowledgement (search ignores current line) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Debian-PR-Message: ack 97531 Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Thomas Schoepf If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 97531@bugs.debian.org (and *not* to submit@bugs.debian.org). Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the Bug-tracking system. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 15 May 2001 01:50:48 +0000 From joey@silk.kitenet.net Mon May 14 20:50:48 2001 Return-path: Received: from as5800-82-148.access.naxs.com (silk.kitenet.net) [216.98.82.148] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 14zTyU-0003fi-00; Mon, 14 May 2001 20:50:15 -0500 Received: from joey by silk.kitenet.net with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 14zU1V-0003FN-00; Mon, 14 May 2001 21:53:17 -0400 From: Joey Hess To: Debian Bug Tracking System Subject: search ignores current line X-Reportbug-Version: 1.15 X-Mailer: reportbug 1.15 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 21:52:52 -0400 Message-Id: Sender: Joey Hess Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: less Version: 358-6.1 Severity: minor Searching with '/' ignores the current line. This is, of course, often good -- it lets me search again and move forward in the file. But, it tripped me up just now. I lessed a file, and the thing I was looking for was in the first line of the file. But I didn't know that, and I was assuming it was quite a way down, so I didn't bother to read a thing, just ran a search, and it said "Pattern not found". And I took it at its word (silly me). Only later, after exiting less and eventually running grep did I notice it was in the first line of the file. I think it would be nice if, after searching the rest of the file, less went back and checked to see if the pattern was in the current line, and said something like "Pattern only found in current line (you doofus)". -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux silk 2.4.3 #2 Wed Apr 25 18:53:02 EDT 2001 i686 Versions of packages less depends on: ii debianutils 1.15 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.2.3-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20010318-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand Noted your statement that Bug has been forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org. Request was from Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 22 Jul 2001 16:59:32 +0000 From schoepf@web.de Sun Jul 22 11:59:32 2001 Return-path: Received: from aecf8.pppool.de (asterix.gallien) [::ffff:213.6.236.248] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 15OMZo-0007WB-00; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 11:59:32 -0500 Received: from schoepf by asterix.gallien with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15OMTT-0000dX-00; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:52:59 +0200 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:52:59 +0200 From: Thomas Schoepf To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: forwarded 97531 Message-ID: <20010722185259.A2399@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: Thomas Schoepf Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org forwarded 97531 bug-less@gnu.org --