On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 02:38:23AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > I wonder if we should consider adding "U" to the default $LESS variable > we set. Having tried this for 5 minutes, the answer is a resounding "no". It also treats tabs as control characters, making source code diffs rather ugly. ;) In modern versions of less you can get around it with: LESS="-U --proc-tab" or: LESS="--PROC-BACKSPACE" but those are new in less 632, from the last year or two. So I don't think we can rely on it in our default variable, but people with recent versions of less should consider setting it. Looks like it was added for exactly this case: https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues/335 -Peff
