put cursor on found text in less or vi?

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Wed Sep 25 13:09:40 UTC 2024


On 25.09.24 Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 12:17 +0200, Nils Kassube via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > On 25.09.24 Karl Auer wrote:
> > > I am looking at a text file with thousands of very long lines.
> > First you could install joe.
>
> Thanks!

I'm glad I could help.

> Very clunky compared to vi, but isn't everything? :-) That's the
> penalty you pay for modeless I guess.

I discovered joe very soon when I started using Linux so I never bothered learning vi and therefore I can't compare them.


Nils







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