On 2025-11-08 09:53:44 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 21:38:17 +0000, Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Nov 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > If I run > > > > > > (unset LESS; apt show bash) > > > > > > or > > > > > > env -u LESS apt show bash > > > > > > then the raw control characters are passed through directly to the > > > terminal as intended. > > > > > > > > Or maybe add -R? > > > > I have it set to -RX. > > That may be acceptable for many users. I don't want that as a default, > though. There are far too many times when I use less on a file/stream > that may or may not contain binary data, and in those cases I *want* > the binary data to be presented as reverse-video ESC and so on, rather > than potentially destroying my terminal.
-R should not destroy your terminal. This is not -r. I also use "less" often on binary data, and I haven't seen any issue with -R (I use LESS="-ciMR -j3" by default). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
