put cursor on found text in less or vi?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 2:41 AM Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
> I am looking at a text file with thousands of very long lines.
>
> When I search in this file, less and vi both position the cursor on the
> start of the line containing the found text, though the actual location
> of the text may be hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of
> characters along in the line.
>
I've been using vi for over 40 years. I've never seen that kind of
behavior on a standard / search. When I use that, the cursor always
lands on the first character of the search pattern. My problem is
finding the cursor on-screen in the thick of the text - it's not
always easy with my eyes.

What kind of search are you doing? Do you have it set to ignore case,
or does that matter?

Strange...

MRZ
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