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How do I see current status of runtime options of less utility?
Less takes runtime options from LESS environment variable + system-wide lesskey file + $HOME/.less file + command line arguments + runtime commands invoked by user.
Use case
After toggling some ...
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Mouse scrolling less pager output in tmux session
I use export LESS=-R to enable scrolling through less output using mouse scroll. It doesn’t work in tmux. For vim, the solution was to add set mouse=a. What is the equivalent option for less assuming ...
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Telling `less` where to break pages
Is there some way to tell less where to break pages?
I was hoping that ^L (form feed / page break) would do it, but found it doesn't. I tried the following:
The first page.
It is three lines
long.
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How to use `less` as default pager for `--help`?
I use --help option a lot. It's annoying how it jumps to the end with help. It can be done with |less option. I want |less to be my default option. Can I use less as default paging for --help?
I use ...
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Dump to terminal or file content of "less" pager utility
It is usual to use less utility as pager (with -r option).
But less uses special terminal buffers, so it preserve previous output to terminal and when I leave less I see previous content.
That is ...
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Is there an automatically scrolling, time-delayed Unix pager command?
I'd like to view output of big commands slowed down, like a slideshow with e.g. automatic, 500ms delay between each scroll. What is the simplest way to achieve this?
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Preventing the pager less from exiting when scrolling beyond the end of file
I like less and use it as my default pager in Linux.
However, there are times that I am scrolling down through a large document quickly and less exits when I reach the end of the document before I ...
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Let less work like cat, if only one screen full of text
On my Debian machine here, less always opens the alternate screen to show stuff.
This is annoying, if there are only 2 or 3 lines to be displayed. I'd like less to:
work as pager, if there is more ...
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Change less (pager) default options
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04. My default pager(set using update-alternatives, not $PAGER) is less. The problem is, when I use ri(Ruby documentation tool) with the '-f ansi' mode, less shows the escape ...
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Use `less` pager on file with non-standard encoding
I often use the less pager to view logfiles. Usually I use less -F to follow the progress of the log à la tail.
However, some logfiles use national characters in a non-standard encoding (Latin-1, ...
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