John E. Davis

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To jump to any file that was specified on the `most` command line, press the ":" key then press "n". This will cause the name of the next file on...

I do not know what you mean by search-mode. If you are talking about aborting the search string prompt, then the default binding to abort the prompt is Ctrl-G. There...

On Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:57:35 -0700, TheHippoMan ***@***.***> said: >Is there any way to get "most" to display a filtered version of the file >contents when in tail mode?...

I am unable to reproduce this. Please provide the output of: most --version 2>&1 | head your terminal program and version, the values of the TERM and COLORTERM environment variables,...

What happens if you unset the COLORTERM environment variable? Does upgrading to the latest version (pre5.2-9) help? Thanks On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 11:49:07 -0700, Sebastien Chapuis ***@***.***> said: >>...

Please try this with pre5.2.0-9: cd /path/to/most/src make clean && make script ./objs/most ../testfiles/truecolor.txt (take a screenshot and exit back to shell) exit This will produce a file called `typescript'....

From you screenshot, your terminal supports truecolor and most has correctly interpreted the escape sequence in the test file. The question is what does most see when man is used....

There are no color escape sequences in the ls.txt file. This is why most does not display color. It seems to me that the problem you are experiencing is external...

Evidently man strips the highlighting sequences when stdout is redirected unless the MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING environment variable is defined. That is, produce the ls.txt file using: MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 man ls > /tmp/ls.txt Thanks