Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:16:07 +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > I looked briefly at this and it wouldn't be that hard. However, > > while it would be fantastic to clean up all the crap from less, it > > isn't clear if Garrett D'Amore is going to be keeping his fork up to > > date - if he doesn't then we are then left with a much harder job to > > merge later changes from the original less. Unless we are happy to > > fork and maintain less ourselves without an upstream. > > Would it really be so bad to consider less/more feature complete and > only apply bug fixes? The only place I expect large changes would be > in the UTF-8 support.
It would be nice to be able to clean it up some. I often muse on the fact that less is one of the first binaries to touch untrusted data on my machines, and that it's known to be messy code.
