Less version 394

Version 394 was released on 3 Dec 2005.

These are the differences between version 382 and version 394:

• Add history file to save search and shell command history between invocations of less.
• Improve behavior of history list for search and shell commands.
• Add -K (or --quit-on-intr) option to make less exit immediately on ctrl-C.
• Improve handling of UTF-8 files and commands, including better line wrapping and handling double-width chars.
• Added LESSUTFBINFMT environment variable to control display of non-printable characters in a UTF-8 file.
• Add --with-secure option to configure, to make it easier to build a secure version of less.
• Show search matches in the status column even if search highlights are disabled via the -G option or the ESC-u command.
• Improve performance when the file contains very long lines.
• Add "windows" charset.
• Add man page for lessecho.
• Add support for erase2 character, treated same as erase.
• Use ASCII lowercase/uppercase logic when operating on the command line.
• Update makefile for Borland C++ 5.5.1.
• Fix bug in calculating number of pages for %D prompt.
• Fix bug in handling tag file error.
• Fix obscure bug if input file is deleted while viewing help.
• Fix bug handling filenames which include square brackets.
• Fix possible buffer overflow in "global" tag search.
• Fix possible buffer overflow in usage of LESSOPEN and LESSCLOSE.
• Fix buffer overflow in reverse search.