On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 11:44:25AM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> To reproduce, make it so that your terminal has 29 or 35 or 37 rows.
> Then run `./more -c NEWS` and type ? to display the in-app help text.
> (The NEWS file should be the one from util-linux-2.41-rc2.)
>
> Then type <Space>. See that the top row still displays the second line
> of the help text: "Star (*) indicates argument becomes new default."
>
> Somehow `more -c` forgets to clear the top row when the corresponding
> line in the file is blank.
I can reproduce this bug. It seems that more(1), when used with -c
(ctl->clear_line_ends in the code), does not clear properly the screen
(after help) if there is an empty line in the file.
Karel
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