It seems that the -F flag to less is broken. Instead of reverting to
cat-like behaviour on short files, it prints nothing at all.
: lyndon@orthanc:/home/lyndon; cat typescript
Script started on Mon May 9 00:22:41 2022
: lyndon@orthanc:/home/lyndon; seq 10
On 2022/05/09 00:37, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
> It seems that the -F flag to less is broken. Instead of reverting to
> cat-like behaviour on short files, it prints nothing at all.
You'll probably be happier with at least LESS=Xcq in the environment.
(I use MXciq).
> This is with TE
On Mon, 09 May 2022 00:37:58 -0700
"Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" wrote:
> It seems that the -F flag to less is broken. Instead of reverting to
> cat-like behaviour on short files, it prints nothing at all.
>
> : lyndon@orthanc:/home/lyndon; cat typescript
> Script started on Mon May 9 00
Oh! I completely missed -X. Adding that fixed it. I'm running
with LESS=-aicFX and all is well under TERM=xterm now. Thanks!
--lyndon