[Bug 905875] Re: Support for incremental search in less

Suraj N. Kurapati sunaku at gmail.com
Fri Nov 1 17:42:49 UTC 2013


This patch adds incremental search to GNU less(1) through a `-Y` command
line option:

https://github.com/matthewlmcclure/less/pull/2

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Title:
  Support for incremental search in less

Status in “less” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Less doesn't support incremental search (also known as search-as-you-
  type).  Something like vim's "set incsearch" option would be very
  useful.

  See also: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/10/search-if-it-isnt-
  incremental-its-excremental.html

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