less-530

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New version.

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Major changes between "less" versions 487 and 530

• Don't output terminal init sequence if using -F and file fits on one screen.

• When using -S, mark truncated lines with a special character. The character can be changed or disabled via the new --rscroll option.

• New command M marks the last line displayed on the screen.

• New command ESC-m removes a line mark.

• Status column (enabled via -J) now shows mark letters.

• Status column shows search matches even if highlighting is disabled via -G.

• A second ESC-u command will clear search match markers in the status column.

• Do same ANSI escape code filtering for tag matching that we do for searching, to help when viewing syntax-highlighted code.

• Catch SIGTERM and clean up before exiting.

• Fix bug initializing default charset on Windows.

• Handle keypad ENTER key correctly if it sends something other than newline.

• Fix buffering bug when using stdin with a LESSOPEN pipe.

• On Windows, allow 'u' in -D option to enable underlining.

• On Windows, use underline in sgr mode.

• On Windows, convert UTF-8 to multibyte if console is not UTF-8.

• Update Unicode tables to 2017-03-08.

• Pass-thru Unicode formating chars (Cf type) instead of treating them as binary chars. But treat them as binary if -U is set.

• Fix erroneous binary file warning when UTF-8 file contains ANSI SGR sequences.
• Fix bugs when using LESSOPEN and switching between stdin and other files.

• Fix some bugs handling filenames containing shell metacharacters.

• Fix some memory leaks.

• Allow some debugging environment variables to be set in lesskey file.

• Code improvements:
  • Use ANSI prototypes in funcs.h declarations.
  • Fix some const mismatches.
  • Remove archaic "register" in variable declarations.

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Fixed at revision 11378.