found 436186 less/436-1 tags 436186 + upstream forwarded 436186 http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/bugs.html#272 quit
Thomas Dickey wrote: > strace shows that gnome-terminal is sending cursor-key escape sequences > to less. This is not documented in gnome-terminal (of course - vte is > notable for its absence of documentation), and whatever it may refer to > in vte's changelog is unclear. > > so it just happens to work. Yep, this is the conclusion I came to, too. That mechanism is not perfect --- it requires the semi-infamous terminal initialization sequence in order to work (i.e., no less -X). See also <http://bugs.debian.org/565699>. > (e)links(2) is using a different mechanism: it's turned on xterm's > any-event mouse reporting mode (which gnome-terminal happens to > implement). Right. I hope less learns to do the same. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
