less-661

[Bruce Dubbs]

New version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Less version 661

Version 661 was released for general use on 30 June 2024.

These are the differences between version 643 and version 661:

• Add ^O^N, ^O^P, ^O^L and ^O^O commands and mouse clicks (with --mouse) to find and open OSC8 hyperlinks
• Add --match-shift option.
• Add --lesskey-content option
• Add LESSKEY_CONTENT environment variable
• Add --no-search-header-lines and --no-search-header-columns options
• Add ctrl-L search modifier
• A ctrl-P at the start of a shell command suppresses the "done" message
• Add attribute characters ('*', '~', '_', '&') to --color parameter.
• Allow expansion of environment variables in lesskey files.
• Add LESSSECURE_ALLOW environment variable.
• Add LESS_UNSUPPORT environment variable.
• Add line number parameter to --header option.
• Mouse right-click jumps to position marked by left-click.
• Ensure that the target line is not obscured by a header line set by --header.
• Change default character set to "utf-8", except remains "dos" on MS-DOS.
• Add message when search with ^{W wraps.}
• UCRT builds on Windows 10 and later now support Unicode file names.
• Improve behavior of interrupt while reading non-terminated pipe.
• Improve parsing of -j, -x and -# options.
• Support files larger than 4GB on Windows.
• Support entry of Unicode chars larger than U+FFFF on Windows.
• Improve colors of bold, underline and standout text on Windows.
• Allow --rscroll to accept non-ASCII characters.
• Allow the parameter to certain options to be terminated with a space (--color, --quotes, --rscroll, --search-options and --intr).
• Fix bug where # substitution failed after viewing help.
• Fix crash if files are deleted while less is viewing them.
• Workaround unreliable ReadConsoleInputW behavior on Windows with non-ASCII input.
• Fix -J display when searching for non-ASCII characters.
• Don't filter header lines via the & command.
• Fix bug when horizontally shifting long lines.
• Add -x and -D options to lesstest, to make it easier to diagnose a failed lesstest run.
• Fix bug searching long lines with --incsearch and -S.
• Fix bug that made ESC-} fail if top line on screen was empty.
• Fix bug with --mouse on Windows when used with pipes.
• Fix bug in --+OPTION command line syntax.
• Fix display bug when using -w with an empty line with a CR/LF line ending.
• When substituting '#' or '%' with a filename, quote the filename if it contains a space.
• Fix wrong sleep time when system has usleep but not nanosleep.
• Fix bug when file name contains a newline.
• Fix bug when file name contains nonprintable characters.
• Fix DJGPP build.
• Update Unicode tables.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit f105449724.