less-702

[Bruce Dubbs]

New version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Major changes between "less" versions 692 and 702

• Add --hilite-target option and -DJ to color target line (github 745).

• Add --past-eof option.

• Add --end-prompt option.

• Add --emouse and --rmouse options, and horizontal mouse scrolling and dragging (github 744).

• Add -DT option to format tilde lines (github 725).

• Change OSC 8 link handling: replace LESS_OSC8_xxx with LESS_OSC8_OPEN_xxx. Remove %O from prompt expansion as no longer needed. Any use of environment variables LESS_OSC8_xxx need to be manually changed to use LESS_OSC8_OPEN_xxx.

• Add ?o to prompt strings, to detect whether an OSC 8 link is selected.

• When scrolling past end-of-file or before beginning-of-file, stop when exactly one line is left on screen.

• Make -w/-W highlight lines when moving backward as well as forward (github 729).

• Display pattern in "Pattern not found" message (github 731).

• Allow m and M commands to take a numeric argument to specify the line to be marked (github 736).

• Allow ' command to take a numeric argument to specify the screen position on which to place the marked line.

• Allow lesskey to map keypad ENTER with \kpe (github 761).

• Add "noaction" as a possible action in #line-edit section in a lesskey file (github 761).

• Support POSIX character classes with the built-in V8 regex library (github 732).

• Change | command to pipe just one line if the marked line is at the top of the screen (github 733).

• If OSC8 handler command begins with "-", suppress command echo, and if it begins with ctrl-P, suppress "done" message (github 747).

• Don't ask for confirmation when input is a binary file and stdout is redirected. Fixes infinite loop in that situation (github 719).

• Make early error messages go to stderr if stdout is redirected (github 719).

• Don't retry read after read error; fixes hang when attempting to read a directory or other unreadable file (github 741).

• Fix incorrect restoration of saved mark if not at top of screen.

• With --save-marks, don't save a mark that was cleared with ESC-m.

• Fix buffer overflow when using malformed lesskey file (github 721).

• Fix unexpected scrolling past end of file (github 720).

• Fix bug when env var in LESSKEY_CONTENT partially matches env var defined in lesskey file (github 727).

• Fix bug when env var in lesskey file matches tail of env var used by less (github 728).

• Fix command parsing bug when one command is a substring of another. Also fixes --no-paste option (github 724).

• Fix incorrect display using --color to set character attributes without color, such as -DS-u (github 730).

• Fix crash when tags file contains invalid line number 0 (github 743).

• Fix build when tparm() doesn't use varargs (github 748).

• Fix prompt overflow when filtering with long prompt (github 749).

• Fix incorrect highlighting when change -i while filtering (github 750).

• Fix erroneous error mesage using --show-preproc-error with some shells (github 753).

• Fix erroneous highlighting when using a search pattern containing more than 5 pairs of parentheses with PCRE2 (github 754).

• When ^{X interrupts F mode, discard pending keys as is done when} C interrupts it (github 757).

• Fix bug in Windows where pressing any key during "waiting for data" would prevent a subsequent ^{X from working.}

• Fix erroneous display in some situations when using LESS_LINES (github 759).

• Fix erroneous display after certain messages are displayed in a very narrow terminal (github 760).

• Don't init terminal if stdout is not a tty (github 768).

• Fix bug clicking OSC 8 link that crosses a screen line boundary (github 775).

• Fix beeps when resizing window on Windows (github 771).

• Fix beeps when paging continuously on Windows (github 772).

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 6890c71897.