Less is not an editor, it’s a “pager” which is a read-only viewer for files, or for command output that doesn’t fit in a single screen, or whatever. Generally to control which you want programs use you set the PAGER environment variable.
The old grandaddy pager was called “more”, as in “there’s more text than fits on the screen”. The successor is called “less”. For most purposes, less is more.
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Less is not an editor, it’s a “pager” which is a read-only viewer for files, or for command output that doesn’t fit in a single screen, or whatever. Generally to control which you want programs use you set the
PAGERenvironment variable.The old grandaddy pager was called “more”, as in “there’s more text than fits on the screen”. The successor is called “less”. For most purposes, less is more.