On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:29 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Downloading & trying versions of it locally reveals that it's as of
> version 520, not 530. The last version before 520 is 487. Presumably
> it's covered by this item in the changelog:
>
>     Don't output terminal init sequence if using -F and file fits on one
>     screen[1]

Side note: that's sad, because we already use X in the default exactly
for that reason.

So apparently "less" was broken for us to fix something that we
already had long solved. The code basically tried to do "automatic X
when F is set".

And all that line_count stuff (which is what breaks) is pointless when
-X is already given.

That does give a possible fix: just stop doing the line_count thing if
no_init is set.

So "-F" would continue to be broken, but "-FX" would work.

Something like the attached patch, perhaps?

            Linus