Let less work like cat, if only one screen full of text
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Mar 15, 20261635 viewsConfidence Score0%
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On my Debian machine here, always opens the alternate screen to show stuff. This is annoying, if there are only 2 or 3 lines to be displayed. I'd like to: work as pager, if there is more than a screenful of information and work like , if there's not. Apparently, has the flag for "single screen" cas…
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Fix for: Let less work like cat, if only one screen full of text
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You can combine with , which disables the terminfo initialization sequence. This has the (dis)advantage that does not clear displayed text on exit, no matter how long the file was.
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