Re: Matching a non-match - workaround: less

On 2020-12-20 14:53, Sven Guckes wrote:
> workaround:
> open the file with "less" and right after initiating search with '/'
> type '!' and the prompt will switch to "Non-match /". now enter
> eg "spool.exim.input" and less will skip all those lines. :-)
> that's one of the features i dearly miss with vim. oh, well.

If you've not stumbled across it, check out the "&" (and in this case
"&!") in less. It's like a grep/filter for the buffer in less(1).

-tim



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