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-N or --LINE-NUMBERS
Causes a line number to be displayed at the beginning of each line in the display.
-R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS
Like -r, but only ANSI "color" escape sequences are output in "raw" form. Unlike -r, the
screen appearance is maintained correctly in most cases. ANSI "color" escape sequences are
sequences of the form:
ESC [ ... m
where the "..." is zero or more color specification characters For the purpose of keeping
track of screen appearance, ANSI color escape sequences are assumed to not move the cursor.
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 characters which can end a
color escape sequence. 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 characters which can appear.
-S or --chop-long-lines
Causes lines longer than the screen width to be chopped rather than folded. That is, the por-
tion of a long line that does not fit in the screen width is not shown. The default is to
fold long lines; that is, display the remainder on the next line.
= or ^G or :f
Prints some information about the file being viewed, including its name and the line number
and byte offset of the bottom line being displayed. If possible, it also prints the length of
the file, the number of lines in the file and the percent of the file above the last displayed
line.
:n Examine the next file (from the list of files given in the command line). If a number N is
specified, the N-th next file is examined.
:p Examine the previous file in the command line list. If a number N is specified, the N-th pre-
vious file is examined.
:x Examine the first file in the command line list. If a number N is specified, the N-th file in
the list is examined.
:d Remove the current file from the list of files.