Re: [BUG] italics run past where they should

[Alejandro Colomar]

On 7/21/22 12:46, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 7/21/22 11:25, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > At 2022-07-20T16:58:34+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > > I'm not sure if this is a groff(1) bug, or less(1), or who knows...
> >
> >  From your description I suspect a bug either in less(1) or your terminal
> > emulator.
>
> Yup, I also had that feeling, but the only invariable thing in my 
> experiments is groff(1).
> However, I considered the possibility that a slightly imperfect ordering 
> in escape sequences might be interpreted correctly normally, but 
> incorrectly after the search does some highlighting...
> Or that the combination of escape sequences used by less(1) an groff(1) 
> might be incompatible with eachother?
>
> I generalized the reproduction of the bug:
>
> In any line with alternate highlighting .BI, seraching for a _whole_ 
> italics word will trigger the bug.

And I just reproduced the other side of the bug:

seraching for a whole bold string will make the following italics text 
not be italics any more.

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Alejandro Colomar
<http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>

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