jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell) (09/29/89)
The newest version of less came right up and ran for me--in fact it
seemed so stable that I just made it my default. Man pages, however,
started to annoy be in that the last piece of the man page (you know
a few lines and an END prompt) was put on top of a non-blank screen.
It seems that ``less -swc'' does not erase the blank lines as it should.
In other words, ``less -sc'' puts tildes (~) in place and everything
is cool, but requesting ``less -swc'' doesn't blank out the lines (the
w option says use blank lines instead of ~ lines for "emptiness").
I didn't have time to look at the source code yet. I expect the problem
is easy to fix--if only I weren't so busy. Anyone else fixed it?
Also, the documentation says that -c just ignores the check to see if
characters are 8 bits or not. (Man pages are inherently 7 bits, right?)
Anyway, -c seems to do more than that. As far as I can tell the -c switch
also causes different scrolling behavior--repainting from the top of the
screen instead of scrolling the screen. Who can explain this?
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