Less version 654
Version 654 was released for beta testing on 2 May 2024.
These are the differences between version 643 and version 654:
- Add ^O^N, ^O^P, ^O^L and ^O^O commands and mouse clicks (with --mouse) to find and open OSC8 hyperlinks (github #251).
- Add --match-shift option.
- Add --lesskey-content option (github #447).
- Add LESSKEY_CONTENT environment variable (github #447).
- Add --no-search-header-lines and --no-search-header-columns options (github #397).
- Add ctrl-L search modifier (github #367).
- A ctrl-P at the start of a shell command suppresses the "done" message (github #462).
- Add attribute characters ('*', '~', '_', '&') to --color parameter (github #471).
- Allow expansion of environment variables in lesskey files.
- Add LESSSECURE_ALLOW environment variable (github #449).
- Add LESS_UNSUPPORT environment variable.
- Add line number parameter to --header option (github #436).
- Mouse right-click jumps to position marked by left-click (github #390).
- Ensure that the target line is not obscured by a header line set by --header (github #444).
- Change default character set to "utf-8", except remains "dos" on MS-DOS.
- Add message when search with ^W wraps (github #459).
- UCRT builds on Windows 10 and later now support Unicode file names (github #438).
- Improve behavior of interrupt while reading non-terminated pipe (github #414).
- Improve parsing of -j, -x and -# options (github #393).
- Support files larger than 4GB on Windows (github #417).
- Support entry of Unicode chars larger than U+FFFF on Windows (github #391).
- Improve colors of bold, underline and standout text on Windows.
- Allow --rscroll to accept non-ASCII characters (github #483).
- Allow the parameter to certain options to be terminated with a space (--color, --quotes, --rscroll, --search-options and --intr) (github #495).
- Fix bug where # substitution failed after viewing help (github #420).
- Fix crash if files are deleted while less is viewing them (github #404).
- Workaround unreliable ReadConsoleInputW behavior on Windows with non-ASCII input.
- Fix -J display when searching for non-ASCII characters (github #422).
- Don't filter header lines via the & command (github #423).
- Fix bug when horizontally shifting long lines (github #425).
- Add -x and -D options to lesstest, to make it easier to diagnose a failed lesstest run.
- Fix bug searching long lines with --incsearch and -S (github #428).
- Fix bug that made ESC-} fail if top line on screen was empty (github #429).
- Fix bug with --mouse on Windows when used with pipes (github #440).
- Fix bug in --+OPTION command line syntax.
- Fix display bug when using -w with an empty line with a CR/LF line ending (github #474).
- When substituting '#' or '%' with a filename, quote the filename if it contains a space (github #480).
- Fix wrong sleep time when system has usleep but not nanosleep (github #489).
- Fix bug when file name contains a newline.
- Fix bug when file name contains nonprintable characters (github #503).
- Fix DJGPP build (github #497).
- Update Unicode tables.