less is a terminal pager program used to view (but not change) the contents of a text file one screen at a time.

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Using Unison with colordiff

I want Unison to show the diffs with colordiff. I’ve got diff = colordiff -u CURRENT2 CURRENT1 | less -R in my config file but it seems like Unison pipes the output to plain less nonetheless, so I ...
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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 ...