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Re: LESS - Search for highlighted text

#1954
From: Chris Bertin
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 18:34
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In article <raan.676709436@techunix.technion.ac.il> raan@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL (Ran Ever-Hadani) writes:
>In less version 97, you cannot search for a text which is highlighted
>or underlined.
>

Use -i (ignore case in search). It also handles highlighted text. But you
should also get a newer version. Amazingly enough, my old version happens
to be 97:
		$ what less.old | grep ersion
			 less  version 97
		$

and this the current one:
		$ what less | grep ersion
			 less  version 177
		$

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From: chrisb@risky.Convergent.COM (Chris Bertin)
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Subject: Re: LESS - Search for highlighted text
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Date: 13 Jun 91 18:34:06 GMT
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