gpg --search-keys correct behaviour?
David Shaw
dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sat May 6 18:13:32 CEST 2006
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 12:09:03PM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 02:41:42PM +0000, Dick Gevers wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 May 2006 09:29:29 -0400, David Shaw wrote about Re: gpg
> > --search-keys correct behaviour?:
> >
> > >On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:14:36AM +0000, Dick Gevers wrote:
> > >> When I give the command gpg --search-keys <somename>, I get an x number
> > >> of results and if more than 10 (for example), one sees the question:
> > >>
> > >> Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit >
> > >>
> > >> However, when the last of the available names has been printed the same
> > >> question is posed again. I would expect (and believe I saw in previous
> > >> versions) that the question is not repeated after the last name.
> > >>
> > >> I know I can type "q" for quit, but it seems not elegant.
> > >>
> > >> I am using gpg version 1.4.3.
> > >
> > >I just tried this, but it works for me. Can you give me an example of
> > >it not working? That is, give me the keyserver you were searching
> > >against, and the name you were searching for.
> >
> > Sure: keyserver hkp://random.sks.keyserver.penguin.de
> > I tried with 'barth' (271 results) and 'gevers' (33 results) and the
> > behaviour is as above each time.
> >
> > But if I try keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net and search for 'gevers' I get
> > the same behaviour.
>
> I still can't duplicate it. Can anyone here duplicate this?
Wait a moment here - your problem is that the prompt IS repeated?
That's not a bug, and has been the same since 1.0.7.
David
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