When most is used to read man pages, and when searching for a term, you have to press 'n' twice

[Rory McCann]

Binary package hint: most

When using most as a man page viewer (eg "PAGER=most man man"), if you search for a word that is highlighted (in the case of the man man page 'DESCRIPTION'), you have to press n twice to progress to the next match. 'n' is used in most when searching to progress to the next search.

To reproduce
1. install most
2. in a terminal: "PAGER=most man man"
3. You will see the man page for man
4. type in "/DESCRIPTION". (without the quotes), this will tell most to search for the string 'DESCRIPTION'
5. The cursor will move to the D in DESCRIOTION (this is what we want)
6. Press the n key, this will tell most to move to the next matched string

what happens:

The cursor doesn't move

what should happen:

the cursor should move to the next occurance of 'DESCRIPTION' (which is a few lines down)

pressing n again will move to the next 'DESCRIPTION'.

All the occurances of 'DESCRIPTION' that are highlighted in red take 2 presses of n to move to the next. if it's not highlighted in red, then you only have to press n once.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 libslang2 2.1.3-3ubuntu3
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.3-5ubuntu4
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu4
 libc6 2.9-4ubuntu6.1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: most 5.0.0a-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: most
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Oskar Wallgren (oskar-wallgren13)]

From the Debian bug tracker (linked above).
"This has been fixed by the recent introduction of the regexp-based search."

[Peteris Krumins (peteris-krumins)]

Hello,

I just installed most on Ubuntu 18.04 and this bug is still there. You have to press "n" twice to navigate around.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

$ most --version
MOST version 5.0.0 (S-Lang version 2.3.1a)

Does anyone know a workaround? Thanks!

[Oskar Wallgren (oskar-wallgren13)]

The fix would be in the latest release, most 5.1.0 .
http://www.jedsoft.org/most/download.html

It doesn't seem to be in Debian yet and I see no mention on the debian page for most that the package is old. You may have to bump Debian about this.