Re: less -S does not "truncate" lines

2019-07-20 Thread George Brown
Hi Ingo, Yes the usage of "truncate" and "chop" are unfortunate. I agree positive language is always better. Many thanks, George

Re: less -S does not "truncate" lines

2019-07-20 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi George, George Brown wrote on Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 01:29:37PM +0100: > When viewing a file with "less -S" that has lines longer than $COLUMNS > said lines are simply not wrapped. The contents of said lines is still > available, one simply needs to scroll horizontally. I would have > expected

less -S does not "truncate" lines

2019-07-20 Thread George Brown
When viewing a file with "less -S" that has lines longer than $COLUMNS said lines are simply not wrapped. The contents of said lines is still available, one simply needs to scroll horizontally. I would have expected the contents displayed within less to be as if I had run something like "cut -c