Hi, when using `guix search python2-xcffib` on a foreign distribution (Gentoo) not all control sequences are stripped by the pager (see location and license):
---snip--- name: python2-xcffib version: 0.6.0 outputs: out systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux dependencies: libxcb@1.14 python2-cffi@1.13.2 python2-six@1.14.0 location: 8;;file://xxx/gnu/store/1ccswh99papcvkj028s9myy8kq26y26g-guix-module-union/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scmgnu/packages/python-xyz.scm:5437:28;; homepage: https://github.com/tych0/xcffib license: 8;;http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:ExpatExpat8;; synopsis: XCB Python bindings description: Xcffib is a replacement for xpyb, an XCB Python bindings. It adds support for Python 3 and PyPy. It is based on cffi. relevance: 20 --- `guix search python2-xcffib | less` works fine, `unset`ting the environment variable $LESS or setting it to 'FrX' (i.e. what guix does when it’s missing) fixes the issue too, so I’m a little puzzled. Some more information: ---snip--- $ env | grep -i less LESS=-R -M --shift 5 LESSOPEN=|lesspipe %s PAGER=/usr/bin/less $ less --version less 551 (PCRE2 regular expressions) […] $ LANG=C guix describe Generation 15 Jun 11 2020 17:47:13 (current) guix cbd9581 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: cbd9581acc41cd49eb81c2432452cad4de805cbd ---snap--- Cheers, Lars