Your message dated Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:25:53 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#632069: with search commands, less should display
context lines before a match
has caused the Debian Bug report #632069,
regarding with search commands, less should display context lines before a match
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Package: less
Version: 444-1
Severity: wishlist
With search commands, less should be able to display a configurable
number of (physical) context lines before a pattern match. This number
could be any nonnegative integer (dynamically bounded by the terminal
height - 1), possibly 0 for the current behavior.
The context lines could be displayed in some different style (e.g. a
different background).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages less depends on:
ii debianutils 4.0.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.9-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
less recommends no packages.
less suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On 2014-11-16 15:11:19 +0000, Iain Elder wrote:
> Has anyone responded to this or forwarded it to the less maintainers?
I'm closing this bug because the -j option provides the needed
feature. It's not restricted to search commands, though, but I think
it is better like that. The only practical problem I've found is the
spurious lines before the file when going to line 1. I've reported
it here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763631
and upstream to bug-less (also on October 1, 2014) as said in the
less(1) man page. But I haven't received any reply yet.
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