@kuba fantastic!! You're welcome! Thanks for giving me an opportunity to learn about this particular little stumbling block. I'll remember it for next time!!
@kuba If you consult the systemd documentation and the entries for $SYSTEMD_PAGER and $SYSTEMD_LESS¹ you'll find mention of some mysterious less(1) options but not what they mean or why they matter; but if you peek at the doc source code² you'll find that the behaviour you're describing is controlled by the presence of "K" in the default $SYSTEMD_LESS var, and you can override that out with, e.g.:
@kuba you're doing the right thing! Or at least you're doing what should produce the result you want according to the default configuration of less(1).
However you say you're invoking less "indirectly" with journalctl; do you mean you're running `journalctl ... | less`, or just running `journalctl` and letting it invoke less(1) itself as the default pager? If the latter, it's useful to know that systemd invokes less with some quite non-default options!
@arstechnica Caplan and Moreno are worth quoting but Musk is not. This article and headline brings discredit on your publication by centering and quoting a liar.
Please do not quote liars. There is too much of that going on these days.
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