From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:06:44 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * zless.in: Work around a bug in less 394 and earlier; it
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* zless.in: Work around a bug in less 394 and earlier; it
mishandles $%=~ in file names.  Problem reported by
Sami Liedes in <http://bugs.debian.org/383358>.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5a4c71c..e99cb41 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2006-12-29  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
+	* zless.in: Work around a bug in less 394 and earlier; it
+	mishandles $%=~ in file names.  Problem reported by
+	Sami Liedes in <http://bugs.debian.org/383358>.
+
 	* doc/gzip.texi: Swap order of dircategory entries, to pacify
 	Debian install-info 1.10.28.  This should fix
 	<http://bugs.debian.org/404048>.
diff --git a/zless.in b/zless.in
index dae346f..974891a 100644
--- a/zless.in
+++ b/zless.in
@@ -38,5 +38,16 @@ case $1 in
 --version) exec echo "$version";;
 esac
 
+if test "${LESSMETACHARS+set}" != set; then
+  # Work around a bug in less 394 and earlier;
+  # it mishandles the metacharacters '$%=~'.
+  space=' '
+  tab='	'
+  newline='
+'
+  LESSMETACHARS="$space$tab$newline'"';*?"()<>[|&^`#\$%=~'
+  export LESSMETACHARS
+fi
+
 LESSOPEN="|gzip -cdfq -- %s"; export LESSOPEN
 exec less "$@"