Groups | Search | Server Info | Login | Register

Groups > alt.os.linux.suse > #24760

Re: Text-Searching in "less"

Show all headers | View raw

On 2025-02-12 18:33, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:
> Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-02-11 09:44, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:
>>>  From the "man" page:

...

> SUSE (and openSUSE) appear to be outliers here, here is a complaint from 
> 2014: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/116395/less-searches-are- 
> always-case-insensitive

Why did he not ask on the openSUSE mail list? He would have found the 
reason at least. I was there, too. Same as I found out how it was done I 
would have found 10 years ago.

> https://linuxhandbook.com/search-less-command/    and
> https://linuxopsys.com/less-command-cheat-sheet
> are clearly using other distributions and they claim things work the way 
> "man less" documents them.
> 
> You identified the
>     LESS='-M -I -R'
> line and that is to be the problem.  The other two options make perfect 
> sense.
> I edited .profile, specifying
>      export LESS="-M -R"
> and that changed the behaviour (after a reboot).  Thank you.


You can ask in the mail list and reach the people that did this (unless 
they are no longer there or died or something). Or, directly create a 
bugzilla asking that the action be reversed.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

Back to alt.os.linux.suse | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Text-Searching in "less" R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> - 2025-02-11 09:44 +0100
  Re: Text-Searching in "less" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-11 13:41 +0100
    Re: Text-Searching in "less" marrgol <marrgol@address.invalid> - 2025-02-11 15:00 +0100
      Re: Text-Searching in "less" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-11 15:12 +0100
    Re: Text-Searching in "less" R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> - 2025-02-12 18:33 +0100
      Re: Text-Searching in "less" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-12 19:28 +0100
        Re: Text-Searching in "less" mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) - 2025-02-12 22:40 +0000
          Re: Text-Searching in "less" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-13 00:37 +0100

csiph-web