Here is the behaviour im seeing:
http://www.giphy.com/gifs/MWuSbME041h8cmDqer
A short description is that when i type man bash | less, i need to type
::100
instead of
:100
in order to move to line 100.
I've tried googling it but couldnt really come up with sane search terms and it yielded nothihng.
Any ideas ?
My version of less is:
less 487 (POSIX regular expressions)
Just to be clear: G means press this key and g means enter this character, so G = Shift+G.
To navigate to a specific line in less, just enter a line number and press G. You don't enter the colon :, e.g. 1+0+0+G to go to line 100.
Entering the same, but pressing Enter instead of G jumps down 100 lines instead. Here are the jumping commands from less --help:
Commands marked with * may be preceded by a number, N.
g < ESC-< * Go to first line in file (or line N).
G > ESC-> * Go to last line in file (or line N).
p % * Go to beginning of file (or N percent into file).
Here's a list of possible combinations (for a standard US QWERTY keyboard where <=Shift+,, >=Shift+. and %=Shift+5):
mandoesn't have its own pager, it uses the pager set in$MANPAGER,$PAGERor the one the alternatives system provides (which islessby default), whichever is set, in this exact order. As I explain in How can I get help on terminal commands? to use a specific pager one should use e.g.man -P less bash. – dessert Feb 28 '18 at 11:45