On 2023-10-12 03:39, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 02:31 +0200, Dragan Simic wrote:
Makes sense, but please see also my other reply on the list. To sum
it
up, we can have either the current behavior, the inconsistent
behavior,
or an even more annoying behavior. I believe that the current
behavior
is the best choice among these three options.
Well as I've said... I don't demand that it's changed, but I simply
think it's a wrong assumption that it's in any way better or worse.
Leaving back partial output, or when scrolling up&down completely
messed up output, is surely not per se more annoying or a bigger
problem than leaving back no output at all in one case (when it doesn't
fit on one screen) or leaving back output (when it fits).
Let me repeat that the messed up output you're experiencing isn't normal
and has nothing to do with the arguments passed to less(1). That's a
separate issue of the terminal emulator(s) you're using, or in issue of
your specific environment, and should be debugged and addressed as a
separate issue.
To me, having inconsistent displaying of the short and long outputs is
simply not acceptable.
Yes, I'm sure, because I'd be fixing that already if that were the
case
in my environment. :) I use Xfce and its default terminal emulator,
though, and I don't know what it's like in other desktop environments
and their terminal emulators.
I just tried it with xfce4-terminal 1.1.0 (which AFAICS is the most
recent version) in Debian, and unless they break anything with custom
patches, or you distro fixes anything with custom patches... I'd say
you must suffer from the same issue and probably just try something
different.
Let me repeat that I don't see those issues, and actually, IIRC, have
never seen them in my 25+ years of using various Linux distributions.
If I've ever seen that, it would've already motivated me to have it
debugged and fixed.
Perhaps something is wrong with your specific environment, because I see
no other reason for this issue.
Since Debian's less is pretty outdated, I've even compiled a quite
recent less 643 (there's not even a tarball yet for 644, only a git
tag).
A made a screen recording... it's not 8K ;-) but I guess you can see
what I do:
https://youtu.be/KMs3sLk9nXY
For some reason, I can see it with 360p as the highest available
resolution, so I really can't read what's displayed on the recorded
screen. Strange. Could you, please, upload the video in higher
resolution, perhaps to a file sharing service such as
https://easyupload.io/ ?
