Bugs in less-330

This is a list of the known bugs in less-330. Bugs marked with a * are fixed in less-332.

#101

Using the -s flag can put "~" lines before the beginning of the file.

#104

Using the -s flag on a file with trailing blank lines, type the "G" command. The prompt may say "99%" instead of "100%".

#130

Command "F" doesn't work if the file shrinks in size.

#142

If less is running over telnet and the telnet session terminates, less hangs & spins. Apparently only happens on Solaris?

#138

On Solaris, searching for "a[1,2]" matches "a4".

#152

On a Solaris cmdtool, slow pipes get stalled and never show any data.

#170

Does not work when built under Microsoft C on MS-DOS.

#171

Does not work when built under Ultra C on OS-9.

#185

On some terminals, arrow keys don't work when you set -X.

#192

In certain cases, when search highlighting is enabled and a search pattern begins with a ^, more text than the matching string may be highlighted.

#193

On some systems, less treats some binary files as ordinary, non-binary files. You can workaround this problem by setting the environment variable LESSCHARSET to "ascii" (or whatever character set is appropriate).

#194 *

On Windows, less garbles the display if you run it with a screen buffer bigger than the display window.

#196 *

On Windows, pressing CapsLock causes a couple of spurious characters to be entered (as if typed on the keyboard).

Feature enhancement requests

This is a list of enhancement requests.

#102

Allow -o to work on non-pipe input (ordinary files).

#162

Make compliant with POSIX specification for "more".

#168

Add command to toggle options without notification.

#182

Add a command to remove a file from the file list.

#184

Add a "bookmark" capability; that is, allow file marks to be saved on exit and restored at the next invocation of less on the same file.

#188

Allow ANSI color escape sequences to be displayed without -r.

#191

Allow regular expressions in searches in the MS-DOS version.