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Command-line file reader (like “less”) that can tell the line where the user stopped reading
[Context] I'm developing a little app, as a hobby to learn ncurses, that catalogs and lists and searches within a set of documents (for now, they are the HOWTOs from TLDP).
The most tricky part of ...
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How to have tail -f show colored output with vim?
In this question, Gilles answered
Yet another possibility is to run tail -f in an Emacs shell buffer and use Emacs's syntax coloring abilities.
Because I'm a vim user, I'd like to do this with ...
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pager program like less, able to repeat top N lines
Is there any way to make less program repeat first line (or first 2 lines) on every displayed page?
Is there any other pager program which can do this?
This would be a killer-app for database table ...
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Why do 'man' pages have many extra lines?
When I run the command:
man fork
There is a highlight line at the bottom that reads:
Manual page fork(2) line 52/99 (END)
But when I navigate to line 53 and up to 99, these are just blank ...
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Isn't less just more?
When I do more filename and less filename, it would seem that the resulting terminals are quite similar. I can navigate and search through my files identically (j, Space, /pattern, etc.).
I find it ...
