Less

I’ve been using macOS, linux, *nix based terminals for about a decade and while I’ve taken the time to fully invest in and embrace vim and now neovim, I’ve been many a time confronted with reading a manpage or two and stuck in less.

Thank god, less lets a user use their arrow keys and is more forgiving. But as such, I have never been forced to learn how to actually use the damn thing.

In this post I’ll document the relevant pieces of using less in case anyone else is like me and could use a brief explanation of the key points.

Less Cheatsheet

To move down a page: <SPACE> or page down To move down a line: down arrow To move up a page: page up To move up a line: up arrow

To search: /, just like vim :)

To find next and previous occurences: n and p respectively.

Was that so hard?

No idea why I avoided it for so long. Pushing through that more and more these days.