Re: new version of less pager

2012-09-19 Thread Bob Proulx
David wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Austyg wrote: v451 of less is desirable because it adds support for GNU regular expressions. Hmm... It does say that in the upstream changelog. I am unfamiliar with GNU regular expressions. How are they different from either POSIX regular

Re: new version of less pager

2012-09-16 Thread David
On 15/09/2012, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Austyg wrote: v451 of less is desirable because it adds support for GNU regular expressions. Hmm... It does say that in the upstream changelog. I am unfamiliar with GNU regular expressions. How are they different from either POSIX regular

Re: new version of less pager

2012-09-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Austyg wrote: Thanks to all for good clues. v451 of less is desirable because it adds support for GNU regular expressions. Hmm... It does say that in the upstream changelog. I am unfamiliar with GNU regular expressions. How are they different from either POSIX regular expressions or PCRE

Re: new version of less pager

2012-09-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:45:55 -0700, Austyg wrote: Anyone know whether new version of less file-pager made it into Wheezy? (...) You can see the package status from here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/less.html It seems that not though is listed in the todo list but since Wheezy is now

Re: new version of less pager

2012-09-08 Thread Austyg
Thanks to all for good clues. v451 of less is desirable because it adds support for GNU regular expressions. Since the to do section of http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/less.html says: A new upstream version is available: 451, you should consider packaging it. It looks like it will eventually

new version of less pager

2012-09-07 Thread Austyg
Anyone know whether new version of less file-pager made it into Wheezy? 4 Sep 2012 less-451 has been released for general use. http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ Sorry for newbness . . . =/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: new version of less pager

2012-09-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 sep 12, 11:45:55, Austyg wrote: Anyone know whether new version of less file-pager made it into Wheezy? 4 Sep 2012 less-451 has been released for general use. http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ Sorry for newbness . . . =/ Let's ask APT (assuming one has the relevant

Re: new version of less pager

2012-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Austyg wrote: Anyone know whether new version of less file-pager made it into Wheezy? 4 Sep 2012 less-451 has been released for general use. http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/ Sorry for newbness . . . =/ $ apt-cache policy less less: Installed: 444-4 Candidate: 444-4