On 2021-12-04 12:39:41+0000, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 12:19:34PM +0100, Richard Ulmer wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been reading up on "advanced" less(1) features and came across the > > lesskey(1) man page. In the COMMAND SECTION of the page I read this: > > > > > The action is the name of the less action, from the list below. > > > > However I cannot see this list of available actions. The only thing > > similar I can find is the list of default commands with their actions. > > From this I can deduce some available actions, but I'm not sure if those > > are all the available actions. Maybe there are some actions that are not > > bound by default. I'm also missing a description of what the actions do > > (I don't know all the default less(1) commands off the cuff). > > > > Is the action list missing from the lesskey(1) man page, or am I > > misunderstanding something? > hi. > > the actions do indeed match those in the command list. whether there are > any undocumented ones, i don;t know. i suppose you'd have to go poking > in the source. the actions will roughly match those described in the > less(1) COMMANDS section. so for example in less(1): > [....] > > however we still import less. i'd want to make sure that's not stepping > on anyone's toes to make local changes.
Pls forgive if I'm missing the important points, but in a way, maybe it is implied by man lesskey that the actions are connected with the command list shown. On ~ line 56-57 (under COMMAND SECTION) it says "The string is the command key(s) which invoke the action", which is easy to miss. Then there follows a list of commands, and one can search the man pages (with /) for everything that mentions "command", type "h" within less, etc. I find I have to do kind of thing that often to get a better idea of things, if one idea is mentioned in one part (or man page) then I need to go read other parts (or pages) that discuss the same thing; I even made a couple of scripts or aliases that quicken the process for me.
