Package: less Version: 456-1 Severity: normal The command
echo | less '-mPmfoo\.bar' gives the prompt "foobar" instead of "foo.bar". To get the period, the backslash needs to be doubled, but this is not what the less man page says: Any characters other than the special ones (question mark, colon, period, percent, and backslash) become literally part of the prompt. Any of the special characters may be included in the prompt literally by preceding it with a backslash. As there is no reason to double the backslash, I suppose that it is a bug in the program, not in the documentation. Note that this bug affects "man". For instance, "man apt.conf" gives the following prompt: Manual page aptconf(5) line 1 (press h for help or q to quit) where the period is missing. -- 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 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 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 4.3.4 ii libc6 2.13-37 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 less recommends no packages. less suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
