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

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 2:00 PM Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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
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>  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?

That is weird. What if you try apropos config | less?
Also, just to be sure could you provide the output of ident `which
apropos` | grep apropos :)

Regards
Abhinav