Package: less
Version: 458-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Using less to view manpage or directly a file get a bad display on a large
screen through ssh.
To reproduce :
1. I connected through ssh to a Rasberry Pi with Raspbian/Debian Jessie.
2. man man (or less AfileOfseveralPages).
3. The display was in a window of xfce4-terminal release 0.4.8-1+b1 from
Debian/wheezy.
When the window of the terminal was on the default dimension, all works fine.
4. Enlarge the window to almost 1920x1080 large.
5. Rerun man man (or less AfileOfseveralPages).
6. Only an half of the window is filled with the lines :
" 6 Games
7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g.
man(7), groff(7)
8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
A manual page consists of several sections.
Conventional section names include NAME, SYNOPSIS, CONFIGURATION,
DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS, EXIT STATUS, RETURN VALUE, ERRORS, ENVIRONMENT, FILES,
VERSIONS, CONFORMING TO, NOTES,
BUGS, EXAMPLE, AUTHORS, and SEE ALSO.
The following conventions apply to the SYNOPSIS section and can be used
as a guide in other sections.
bold text type exactly as shown.
italic text replace with appropriate argument.
[-abc] any or all arguments within [ ] are optional.
-a|-b options delimited by | cannot be used together.
argument ... argument is repeatable.
[expression] ... entire expression within [ ] is repeatable.
Exact rendering may vary depending on the output device. For instance,
man will usually not be able to render italics when running in a terminal, and
will typically use under-
lined or coloured text instead.
The command or function illustration is a pattern that should match
all possible invocations. In some cases it is advisable to illustrate several
exclusive invocations as is
Manual page man(1) line 1 (press h for help or q to quit)
"
The half bottom part of the window was blank.
7. Type on the up arrow.
The text was scrolling only on the upper half part of the window.
8. Type on the bootom arrow, the blank part moved up and the text below
followed.
9. Using pagedown alternatively pageup keys make the text scrolling in a nice
chaos.
The text should scroll fine with all dimensions of the window.
On the Raspberry Pi :
cat /etc/debian_version
8.0
uname -a
Linux rp1 4.1.6+ #810 PREEMPT Tue Aug 18 15:19:58 BST 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux
ii debianutils 4.4
ii libc6 2.19-18
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1
The system client is Xfce4 on Debian wheezy updaited and wheezy-backports.
