From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-02-11 09:44, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:   
   >  From the "man" page:   
   >   
   >> /pattern   
   >>               Search forward in the file for the N-th line   
   containing   
   >> the pattern.  N  defaults  to  1.   
   >>               The pattern is a regular expression, as   
   recognized by   
   >> the regular expression library sup-   
   >>               plied by your system.  By default, searching is   
   case-   
   >> sensitive (uppercase  and  lowercase   
   >>               are  considered  different); the -i option can   
   be used   
   >> to change this.  The search starts   
   >>               at the first line displayed (but see the -a and   
   -j   
   >> options, which change this).   
      
      
   And where do you enter that 'N'?   
   First time I read this.   
      
      
   > I'm running Leap 15.6 (which is where that man page extract came from)   
   > and noticed that my searches are case-insensitive.  Of course I do not   
   > have -i set but it is possible that OpenSUSE generously sets that option   
   > for me via an alias.   
      
   Searches have always been case insensitive inside less, for decades (in   
   *suse). Since ever. It is the first time I see some one saying they are   
   not (the manual).   
      
   There are a lot of environment variables mentioned in the manual at the end.   
      
   cer@Laicolasse:~> set | grep LESS   
   LESS='-M -I -R'   
   LESSCLOSE='lessclose.sh %s %s'   
   LESSKEY=/etc/lesskey.bin   
   LESSOPEN='lessopen.sh %s'   
   LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR=no   
   cer@Laicolasse:~>   
      
   There you have.   
      
           -M or --LONG-PROMPT   
                  Causes less to prompt even more verbose-   
                  ly than more(1).   
      
           -I or --IGNORE-CASE   
                  Like  -i,  but searches ignore case even   
                  if the pattern contains  uppercase  let-   
                  ters.   
      
           -i or --ignore-case   
                  Causes searches to ignore case; that is,   
                  uppercase and lowercase  are  considered   
                  identical.   This  option  is ignored if   
                  any  uppercase  letters  appear  in  the   
                  search  pattern;  in  other  words, if a   
                  pattern contains uppercase letters, then   
                  that search does not ignore case.   
      
           -R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS   
                  Like -r, but only  ANSI  "color"  escape   
                  sequences  and OSC 8 hyperlink sequences   
                  are output in "raw"  form.   Unlike  -r,   
                  the screen appearance is maintained cor-   
                  rectly, provided that there are  no  es-   
                  cape  sequences  in  the file other than   
                  these types of escape sequences.   Color   
                  escape sequences are only supported when   
                  the color is changed  within  one  line,   
                  not  across  lines.  In other words, the   
                  beginning of each line is assumed to  be   
                  normal  (non-colored), regardless of any   
                  escape sequences in previous lines.  For   
                  the  purpose  of keeping track of screen   
                  appearance, these escape  sequences  are   
                  assumed to not move the cursor.   
      
                  OSC  8  hyperlinks  are sequences of the   
                  form:   
      
                       ESC ] 8 ; ... \7   
      
                  The terminating sequence may be either a   
                  BEL  character (\7) or the two-character   
                  sequence "ESC \".   
      
                  ANSI  color  escape  sequences  are  se-   
                  quences of the form:   
      
                       ESC [ ... m   
      
                  where  the  "..."  is zero or more color   
                  specification characters.  You can  make   
                  less  think  that  characters other than   
                  "m" can end ANSI color escape  sequences   
                  by   setting  the  environment  variable   
                  LESSANSIENDCHARS to the list of  charac-   
                  ters  which  can  end a color escape se-   
                  quence.  And you  can  make  less  think   
                  that  characters other than the standard   
                  ones may appear between the ESC and  the   
                  m  by  setting  the environment variable   
                  LESSANSIMIDCHARS to the list of  charac-   
                  ters which can appear.   
      
           -r or --raw-control-chars   
                  Causes  "raw"  control  characters to be   
                  displayed.  The default  is  to  display   
                  control characters using the caret nota-   
                  tion; for example,  a  control-A  (octal   
                  001) is displayed as "^A" (with some ex-   
                  ceptions as described under the  -U  op-   
                  tion).   Warning:  when the -r option is   
                  used, less cannot keep track of the  ac-   
                  tual  appearance  of  the  screen (since   
                  this depends on how the screen  responds   
                  to  each  type  of  control  character).   
                  Thus, various display problems  may  re-   
                  sult,  such as long lines being split in   
                  the wrong place.   
      
                  USE OF THE -r OPTION IS NOT RECOMMENDED.   
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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