put cursor on found text in less or vi?

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 08:26 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> 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.

30 years in my case. I am now doubting my own sanity. It does. But less
doesn't. Did I somehow confuse less and vi? Some kind of termcap thing?
Weird characters confusing the search?

On the upside I did learn about joe and geany.

I have not generally done many interactive searches in long lines. I
tend to write software that pulls out what I want. But when I went to
do something interactive last week and this, vi did not work as I
expected. Though now I am wondering whether it was me or vi, because I
just loaded up the same file as yesterday and vi behaved exactly as you
describe.

Which is good! But I'm leaving the thinking about that to a new day.

Regards, K.

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