less
pager program similar to more
Binary packages in testing
| Architecture | Version | Section | Installed size |
|---|---|---|---|
| amd64 | 710+really668-1 | text | 384 kB |
| arm64 | 710+really668-1 | text | 500 kB |
| armhf | 710+really668-1 | text | 426 kB |
| i386 | 710+really668-1 | text | 398 kB |
| loong64 | 710+really668-1 | text | 564 kB |
| ppc64el | 710+really668-1 | text | 564 kB |
| riscv64 | 710+really668-1 | text | 344 kB |
| s390x | 710+really668-1 | text | 400 kB |
Description
pager program similar to more
Dependencies amd64
- Depends
- libc6 (>= 2.42), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Source package
- Name
- less
- Version
- 710+really668-1
- Maintainer
- Milan Kupcevic
- Homepage
- http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/
- Repository
- https://salsa.debian.org/debian/less
Bugs (116 open)
Each bug opens in the Debian bug tracking system, which holds its message log and current state.
- #355359 important Multi-bytes character & any locale setting support! on bugs.debian.org forwarded by wu songhai reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com
- #1148634 normal less: please upgrade to 710 (fixes -F polling eating terminal typeahead in 668) on bugs.debian.org pending by Jesse Rosenstock reported updated patch
- #1109366 normal less: A part of the text is temporarily cleared while searching on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Vincent Lefevre reported updated forwarded to github.com fixed-upstreamupstream
- #1108252 normal less writes LESSHISTFILE directly into $HOME/.lesshst allthough $XDG_STATE_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME exist on bugs.debian.org pending by Bastian Venthur reported updated
- #1103796 normal lesspipe: unreliable variable expansion with '~' on bugs.debian.org pending by Edgar Yllescas reported updated patch
- #1071217 normal Since Debian Bookworm less +F needs 100% of one CPU Core if there are no more Data in Buffer on bugs.debian.org pending by Juergen Kuri reported updated
- #1069280 normal Offer to co-maintain or adopt less on bugs.debian.org pending against src:less by P. J. McDermott reported updated
- #1064304 normal less: in PROMPTS section of doc, it's not at all clear that '.' characters get silently eaten on bugs.debian.org pending by Britton Kerin reported updated upstream
- #1042545 normal less: when the second-to-last line is very long, <End> doesn't complete unless -S on bugs.debian.org pending by наб reported updated upstream
- #1040693 normal less: sleeps with 100% CPU on specific search, all signals blocked on bugs.debian.org pending by наб reported updated upstream
- #1019956 normal less: backspace-based underlining breaks weirdly for multiple columns at a time on bugs.debian.org pending by наб reported updated upstream
- #1003793 normal lesspipe; lesspipe.1: consistency, cleanup, #995948, #720520; rewrite, #988570 on bugs.debian.org pending against src:less by наб reported updated patch
- #995948 normal lesspipe doesn’t properly quote filenames on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Anton Mitterer reported updated
- #995947 normal less: miscellaneous improvements on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Anton Mitterer reported updated patch
- #987051 normal less: file regarded as empty when new lines are appended on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated upstream
- #949139 normal less: with option -R, the escape sequences should be sent in an atomic way so that they are not broken by stderr on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated upstream
- #940293 normal less: with a pipe, [End] + Ctrl-C sends back to the beginning of the file on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated upstream
- #940288 normal less: with a pipe, the line numbers can artificially be turned off after Ctrl-C on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated upstream
- #844099 normal less: option -j makes less hang after search and Page Up on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated upstream
- #832707 normal less: resets ANSI colors at each newline on bugs.debian.org pending by Josh Triplett reported updated upstream
- #828174 normal less: SGR attributes don't wrap across lines on bugs.debian.org pending by Ben Longbons reported updated upstream
- #814197 normal less sails right past first entry in some UTF-8 searches on bugs.debian.org pending by 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson reported updated upstream
- #796788 normal less: Bad display on large screen through ssh connection on bugs.debian.org pending by rpnpif reported updated moreinfo
- #785497 normal less: with -R, escape sequences are not sent to the terminal in an atomic way, yielding a race condition on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated upstream
- #771258 normal less: Searching doesn't work as expected when line doesn't fit at screen on bugs.debian.org pending by Askar Safin reported updated upstream
- #769732 normal less: Segfault when a file disappears on bugs.debian.org pending by Peter De Wachter reported updated upstream
- #749147 normal Conflicting types of variable jump_sline_fraction on bugs.debian.org pending by Michael Tautschnig reported updated
- #723107 normal less: search history no longer contains new blank entry from current search on bugs.debian.org pending by The Wanderer reported updated upstream
- #682033 normal Display of wrapped very long lines is insanely slow on bugs.debian.org pending by Ben Hutchings reported updated
- #654416 normal less: fails to show characters with accent on bugs.debian.org pending by Franco Martelli reported updated
- #631091 normal less: Incorrect line width for man pages on bugs.debian.org pending by Torquil Macdonald Sørensen reported updated
- #609738 normal less: Can't set a binding for BACKSPACE on bugs.debian.org pending by Jason Morawski reported updated
- #594260 normal less: Options -i -I do not work for 8 bit characters on bugs.debian.org pending by Bjarni Ingi Gislason reported updated
- #583477 normal less: Show column headers (useful eg. for CSV output) on bugs.debian.org pending by Jan-Benedict Glaw reported updated
- #571090 normal mention s: make log file, on help screen on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #540715 normal less: display of shorter line preceeded by longer line is padded with longer line on bugs.debian.org pending by Jeffrey Sheinberg reported updated
- #508919 normal LESS=F ruins less +G on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #489908 normal First line not output correctly on bugs.debian.org pending by Wouter Verhelst reported updated
- #478487 normal less: ti termcap strings used too often? on bugs.debian.org pending by Tim Connors reported updated
- #476188 normal less: displays UTF-8 character incorrect on bugs.debian.org pending by Jörg Sommer reported updated moreinfo
- #460171 normal less -g/-w searching for text in file with long lines yeilds corrupt display on bugs.debian.org pending by Joey Hess reported updated
- #459335 normal less: drawing errors with -g on bugs.debian.org pending by Tim Connors reported updated
- #459278 normal less: Search highlighting bold/underlined characters highlights preceding non-matched character on bugs.debian.org pending by Josh Triplett reported updated
- #459078 normal touch /tmp/empty; less /tmp/empty; hit F; hit ctrl-C ==> infinite loop. on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Tim Phipps reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com
- #454125 normal less man page doesn't accurately describe the v command (editor) on bugs.debian.org pending by Martin Lee reported updated
- #432947 normal less is ignoring utf-8 in environment variables on bugs.debian.org pending by Oliver Cordes reported updated
- #403612 normal With -R, less should support ^N and ^O (smacs and rmacs on some terms, like vt100 and screen) on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated
- #400915 normal less and lesskey file not functioning on bugs.debian.org pending by Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril reported updated
- #399848 normal With -R, less should support ^N and ^O (smacs and rmacs on some terms, like vt100 and screen) on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated
- #397856 normal less and wy60 terminal on bugs.debian.org pending by Robert Fantini reported updated
- #344963 normal Piping data to less makes the command pause (buffer problem?) on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Vincent Lefevre reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com,344963-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
- #332578 normal less: Double wide character is displayed twice in search command on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Teemu Likonen reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com,332578-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
- #282425 normal less inserts line-breaks on its wrapped-lines on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Daniel reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>
- #272017 normal less: long time waiting when no changing file on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Michal Kovac reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>
- #248581 normal less: spurious newlines in screen display when using 'G' on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Peter Cordes reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>
- #243370 normal Less does not properly format perldoc output on bugs.debian.org pending by Fred Leeflang reported updated moreinfo
- #223511 normal less -r: Chinese /search string still byte codes on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Dan Jacobson reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com> upstream
- #181406 normal less: terminal strangeness when running editor on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Michael Weber reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com
- #153576 normal Search is broken on very long lines on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Matt Zimmerman reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com
- #49900 normal less: Can't set a binding for ^C on bugs.debian.org forwarded reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org
- #44435 normal less: searching fails if files contain \0 on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Thomas Roessler reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org
- #36318 normal less: [PATCH] backward scrolling in binary files is very slow on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Charles Briscoe-Smith reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org patch
- #1143876 minor less: Ctrl-X truncates the data with "less --file-size" on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated fixed-upstreamupstream
- #1082966 minor less: Issues in man page lesspipe(1) on bugs.debian.org pending by Helge Kreutzmann reported updated l10npatch
- #1081974 minor lesspipe.1: Some remarks and editorial changes for this man page on bugs.debian.org pending by Bjarni Ingi Gislason reported updated patch
- #1081918 minor less.1: Some remarks and editorial changes for this man page on bugs.debian.org pending by Bjarni Ingi Gislason reported updated patch
- #1071615 minor lesskey.1: some remarks and editorial changes for this man page on bugs.debian.org pending by Bjarni Ingi Gislason reported updated patch
- #963464 minor less message left on the screen after quitting with first file non-existent on bugs.debian.org pending by Tomáš Szaniszlo reported updated
- #761073 minor less -F is confused by Ctrl-C interrupt on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated upstream
- #734415 minor ...|cpio --to-stdout -i file.txt|less +/string on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated
- #720520 minor lesspipe advises using missing mkisofs package on bugs.debian.org pending by Vagrant Cascadian reported updated
- #706074 minor less: Incorrect hilighting of search results on bugs.debian.org pending by Bas van Sisseren reported updated
- #693676 minor "less -V" output change confuses xzless on bugs.debian.org pending by Jonathan Nieder reported updated wontfix
- #687482 minor `less +q` should be equivalent to `less +gq` on bugs.debian.org pending by Albert Reiner reported updated
- #650337 minor /tmp\ is a directory on bugs.debian.org pending reported updated upstream
- #632981 minor less: man page oops, missing period on bugs.debian.org pending by green reported updated
- #615031 minor less should wait for its children (zombie child) on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated
- #377901 minor less: n should recall the last string, even if last session on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Dan Jacobson reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com, 377901-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
- #345687 minor less --help proclaims -n = -N on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Dan Jacobson reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com> upstream
- #343067 minor "home" and "end" don't work in less on bugs.debian.org pending by Xavier Bestel reported updated
- #288549 minor less: manpage - regular expression reference is wrong on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Vincent Fourmond reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>
- #243056 minor less: -n means DON'T use line numbers on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Dan Jacobson reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com> upstream
- #223119 minor less: inform me that we are at the end before I hit SPC on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Dan Jacobson reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com> upstream
- #208896 minor less: s should say if input is not a pipe before asking for a filename on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Dan Jacobson reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com upstream
- #177420 minor should warn if $LESSCHARSET is set and UTF-8 locale is used on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Eduard Bloch reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com
- #97531 minor search ignores current line on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Joey Hess reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org
- #1123653 wishlist Please upgrade less version on bugs.debian.org pending by Siddh Raman Pant reported updated
- #1068596 wishlist less: word line wrap missing on bugs.debian.org pending by José Luis González reported updated upstream
- #1063501 wishlist building less from source fails the island test on bugs.debian.org pending against src:less by Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues reported updated wontfix
- #988570 wishlist lesspipe: improve manpage on bugs.debian.org pending by Christoph Anton Mitterer reported updated
- #941356 wishlist less: silently hides formatting characters on bugs.debian.org pending by Adam Borowski reported updated upstream
- #894669 wishlist make lessfile/lesspipe handle logfiles with unix timestamps on bugs.debian.org pending by Marc Haber reported updated
- #770268 wishlist patch: apparmor profile on bugs.debian.org pending by Pat Parson reported updated
- #727034 wishlist Please provide pcre version of less on bugs.debian.org pending by Anthony DeRobertis reported updated
- #638182 wishlist less: please be more verbose about lesspipe usage in login script on bugs.debian.org pending by Luca Capello reported updated
- #580844 wishlist less -F doesn't work well with -c on bugs.debian.org pending by Jonathan Neuschäfer reported updated moreinfoupstream
- #571807 wishlist upstream: enhancements about folding long lines on bugs.debian.org pending by Marc Haber reported updated upstream
- #561195 wishlist Recursive type detection (e.g. .pdf.gz). on bugs.debian.org pending by Trent W. Buck reported updated
- #510360 wishlist less: search history file should keep charset information on bugs.debian.org pending by Vincent Lefevre reported updated
- #427525 wishlist less -n and -N do the same thing according to --help on bugs.debian.org pending by Dan Jacobson reported updated
- #378470 wishlist less: Please support quote character folding in search on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Reuben Thomas reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com, 378470-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
- #360825 wishlist .lesshst wasteful writing and reading on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Dan Jacobson reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com,360825-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
- #355624 wishlist Less(1) should show manpages in color just like most(1) does on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Jason Spiro reported updated forwarded to www.greenwoodsoftware.com
- #234603 wishlist less: better documentation of R command on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Don Armstrong reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>
- #223882 wishlist patch to enable setting the xterm title from less prompts on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Christoph Berg reported updated forwarded to Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com> patch
- #216669 wishlist lesspipe: support RTF on bugs.debian.org pending by Jorgen Schäfer reported updated wontfix
- #205702 wishlist lesspipe: Please consider using a more powerful version on bugs.debian.org pending by Nikolaus Rath reported updated
- #171389 wishlist less: should be an option equivelant to tail --follow=name on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Nathan Dale Muise reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com
- #157008 wishlist less: forw-forever (F) vs. active pipes on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Aaron M. Ucko reported updated forwarded to markn@greenwoodsoftware.com patchupstream
- #135141 wishlist less: would be nice if the highlighting done by -w/-W would revert after a short delay on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Matt Zimmerman reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org
- #134623 wishlist less: Automatically disable line numbers on very large files on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Matt Zimmerman reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org
- #106773 wishlist less(1) manpage is weird on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Tomasz Wegrzanowski reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org
- #59568 wishlist less -F or less -E unuseable on an xterm or rxvt on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Manoj Srivastava reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org upstreamwontfix
- #58861 wishlist less: -c could be the default behaviour? on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Andras Korn reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org
- #51462 wishlist less: -F and X on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Marco d'Itri reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org upstreamwontfix
- #30264 wishlist less: less forgets formatting when output is redirected on bugs.debian.org forwarded by Wichert Akkerman reported updated forwarded to bug-less@gnu.org upstreamwontfix