Re: [lmi] 'less': stuck at end

[Greg Chicares]

On 3/17/21 9:24 PM, Greg Chicares wrote:
> [...] pipe lmi_wx_shared into 'less':
[...]
> Is there any way to tell 'less' to wake up without killing lmi?

The answer is ^X, with less-569 or later:

https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues/49#issuecomment-736182227
https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/5bf862fde4a33ce4a602f369a0c3cb430c883a12

I have only less-551 in a "bullseye/sid" chroot that I updated
quite recently.

Until then:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197199/is-there-any-way-to-exit-less-follow-mode-without-stopping-other-processes-in/383124#383124

|  (setsid seq 10000000) | less +F
|  (trap '' INT; seq 10000000) | less +F
|  less -f +F <(seq 10000000)
|  (seq 10000000 &) | less +F

of which I find the last two most charming. I'm adopting the
last as my standard method--it seems to work well.

A stray tangential comment--do not do this:
  $ less -
because it's really difficult to get out. Backgrounding it
with ^Z lets you kill it.