bug#41811: closed (`guix search` shows control sequences)

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> `guix search` shows control sequences
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> Thu, 11 Jun 2020 19:18:38 +0200
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> Hi,
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> when using `guix search python2-xcffib` on a foreign distribution (Gentoo) not
> all control sequences are stripped by the pager (see location and license):
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> name: python2-xcffib
> version: 0.6.0
> outputs: out
> systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux
> dependencies: libxcb@1.14 python2-cffi@1.13.2 python2-six@1.14.0
> location: 
> 8;;file://xxx/gnu/store/1ccswh99papcvkj028s9myy8kq26y26g-guix-module-union/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/python-xyz.scmgnu/packages/python-xyz.scm:5437:28;;
> homepage: https://github.com/tych0/xcffib
> license: 8;;http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:ExpatExpat8;;
> synopsis: XCB Python bindings
> description: Xcffib is a replacement for xpyb, an XCB Python bindings.
> It adds support for Python 3 and PyPy.  It is based on cffi.
> relevance: 20
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> `guix search python2-xcffib | less` works fine, `unset`ting the environment
> variable $LESS or setting it to 'FrX' (i.e. what guix does when it’s missing)
> fixes the issue too, so I’m a little puzzled. Some more information:
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> $ env | grep -i less
> LESS=-R -M --shift 5
> LESSOPEN=|lesspipe %s
> PAGER=/usr/bin/less
> $ less --version
> less 551 (PCRE2 regular expressions)
> […]
> $ LANG=C guix describe
> Generation 15   Jun 11 2020 17:47:13    (current)
>   guix cbd9581
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: cbd9581acc41cd49eb81c2432452cad4de805cbd
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> Cheers,
> Lars
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> Sun, 14 Jun 2020 15:46:48 +0200
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> Hi,
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> Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net> skribis:
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> >> No control sequences if you do “unset LESS” before hand, right?
> >> I think we’ll just override ‘LESS’ unconditionally as shown below.
> > yes, and the patch fixes the issue.
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> Pushed as e66f243e929bbd94e62e77cfa6a63dfd001ebe07.
> Thanks for testing!
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> Ludo’.
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