On 2022-11-19 07:58:51 Uwe Brauer wrote: This is because of the default settings of the less command. In 'info less' we see that | -r or --raw-control-chars | Causes "raw" control characters to be displayed. The default is to display control characters | using the caret notation; for example, a control-A (octal 001) is displayed as "^A". Warning: | when the -r option is used, less cannot keep track of the actual appearance of the screen | (since this depends on how the screen responds to each type of control character). Thus, var- | ious display problems may result, such as long lines being split in the wrong place. | | USE OF THE -r OPTION IS NOT RECOMMENDED. | | -R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS | Like -r, but only ANSI "color" escape sequences and OSC 8 hyperlink sequences are output in | "raw" form. Unlike -r, the screen appearance is maintained correctly, provided that there are | no escape sequences in the file other than these types of escape sequences. Color escape se- | quences are only supported when the color is changed within one line, not across lines. In | other words, the beginning of each line is assumed to be normal (non-colored), regardless of | any escape sequences in previous lines. For the purpose of keeping track of screen appear- | ance, these escape sequences are assumed to not move the cursor. For this reason, I use | alias l='/usr/bin/less --raw-control-chars' so that colouring works right in less. (Being lazy, I have shortened 'less' to 'l'. :-) ) Leslie -- Platform: GNU/Linux Hardware: x86_64 Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.13 tde-config: 1.0