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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@very.loosely.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: search patterns in less(1)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:29:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190719162937.bbtbnjofvvvy6v7z@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15e96e0c-bc97-3712-eca7-5433ca5fad63@web.de>

On 2019-07-19 06:40, n952162 wrote:

> Anyway, thank you for the (unexpected) tip:
> 
> man perlre
> 
> That says to use \b instead of the decades-old \<.

I did not expect it either, but I convinced myself running

  ldd `which less`

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-19 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-18 22:40 [gentoo-user] search patterns in less(1) n952162
2019-07-18 20:55 ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-07-19  6:40   ` n952162
2019-07-19 15:28     ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-07-19 15:44       ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-07-19 16:29     ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]

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