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8recommend
1warn against
Nov 11, 2025first mention
May 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use the piping feature of less to add some interactivity to git-log.”
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“I've been using less for years, still learned a few things from the article and comments.”
Caveats and dissent
“I needed a pager with better image support than just less -r”
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“The venerable unix tool "less" is on v701”
https://github.com/noborus/ov is another pager, in addition to `moor` that somebody else shared.
“I needed a pager with better image support than just less -r”
“I've since gone back to `less` since it got annoying jumping between systems”
Yep, I would say the stiffest competition for lnav is the old tools[1]. I would just hope folks could have an open mind and give "new" things a chance (although lnav has been on github for 17 years). [1] - https://lnav.org/2013/09/10/competing-with-tail.html
“I use the piping feature of less to add some interactivity to git-log.”
“You can disable things like this by setting the environment variable `LESSSECURE` to `1`.”
“One of the more obscure things OpenBSD man does is provide tags to the pager(less).”
“I've been using less for years, still learned a few things from the article and comments.”
“I use it all the time at work”
“I recommend -FX instead of -EX.”
Oh I see what you mean about glow, that looks like a nice UX improvement - I'm going to try your fork. https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/compare/master...fragmede:glow:master
“I like less”
“Less can be configured with a ~/.lesskey file”
“my go-to has been "less -SEXIER" for a long time.”
“less is more(1)”
“using less works fine still”