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This question arise from https://stackoverflow.com/q/27621369/5599281 with the nice answer from Will Bender https://stackoverflow.com/a/60607569/5599281 to use git config --global core.pager "less; tput cuu 1 && tput ed" The only drawback of...

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Currently if the input preprocessor fails, `less` does not report this failure to the user. This causes problems with applications like Gzip's `zless` program, which runs `less` with `LESSOPEN='||-gzip -cdfq...

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For the following command: ``` echo Hello there | grep --color=always Hello | less -R ``` If you were to search for the letter 'o', the word 'Hello' disappears. This...

**Bug** I want to quit less by pressing `ESC`, so I added this to my `~/.lesskey` file: ``` #command \e quit ``` However, when I now press `ESC`, nothing happens...

When displaying a single line (or more generally less than a screenfull) and not using `--quit-if-one-screen` there is a "random" number of blank lines before the output, which is confusing....

Compiling `less` 551 with GCC 6.5.0 on OpenIndiana 2019.04 (an illumos distribution) brings quite some warnings, all of them are from line 1376 to 2403 in the `screen.c` file and...

I use `S` as one of my configuration options, and I tried viewing a **single-line** 25MiB file. It was taking a few seconds (even with a hot cache) so I...

Hello, we (Yocto project) update versions in an automated fashion by checking upstream version tags and matching them against a regex (when needed) - it becomes therefore impossible to tell...