put cursor on found text in less or vi?

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 22:28 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
> > Huh.  I understand that reaction WRT vi, which is a modal editor
> > and so
> > extremely different from a "typical" editor.
> 
> I ran screaming from vi for that reason. I left bimodal editing
> behind with TECO. Which I suppose is ironic, given Emacs' origins.

TECO is before my time.  However I will somewhat date myself by saying
that the first Emacs I used was not GNU Emacs, it was Gosling Emacs,
which used a C-like syntax in its extension language, rather than Lisp.

To confuse things, though, I started hacking way younger than was
"normal" back then :).  My father was a Math & Comp.Sci. professor and
didn't mind me tagging along and poking at things, so I had access to
more resources than most.