Re: bin/54343: "man -k config | less" broken

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/54343; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: bin/54343: "man -k config | less" broken
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 10:27:53 +0200

 On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 08:25:02AM +0000, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
 >  I tried to reproduce this on fresh VM (NetBSD 9.99.8 amd64) but it
 >  works there. There were a couple of bugs (specifically when
 >  redirecting the output to less) which I fixed a while back (in
 >  revision 1.42 of apropos-utils.c). I think this should not be
 >  happening anymore, could you confirm if it is still an issue and any
 >  specific setup or steps to reproduce?
 
 I just tried and can still reproduce on 9.99.7/amd64 (native).
 
 # echo $TERM
 xterm-256color
 # man -k config
 ... (lots of output) ...
 # man -k config 2>&1 | less
 (nothing)
 #
 
 What more information could be relevant?
  Thomas