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   Carlos E.R. to R Daneel Olivaw   
   Re: Text-Searching in "less"   
   12 Feb 25 19:28:33   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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