Hi, thanks for your bug report.
U.Mutlu wrote: > why is the output of this > aptitude search coin > > different than when redirecting the output to a file or a pipe: > aptitude search coin >t.t > aptitude search coin | less -Sn > > The difference is that the result gets cutted when piping/redirecting. Looks like being limited to 80 columns which generally sounds like a sane default if the environment variable $COLUMNS is not set -- most historical (hardware) terminals do have a width of 80 characters. > The question is: why such an inconsistent and unintuitive behavior? While using a default value for searches on terminals where the width in unknown surely makes sense, but it's non-sense with piping and redirecting. So I consider this a bug and allowed myself to file an official bug report via the Debian Bug Tracking System in your name so that this issue don't get forgotten and is properly tracked: https://bugs.debian.org/775671 (Cc'ed) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
