Re: "less -F" is broken

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:29 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
[off-list ref] wrote:

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.

quoted

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