(Possibly relevant to @b0rk 's interests)

So I hit a flag in diff, --unchanged-group-format. It does not show up in the manpage. It does not show up in --help. You can search both those channels for that string and you will not find it.

You know where it shows up first? If you Google it, you'll get an example in https://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Line-Group-Formats.html.

So why doesn't it show up in the manpage? Well, it does! If you read the entire manpage. With your eyes.

  -D, --ifdef=NAME                output merged file with '#ifdef NAME' diffs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
      --GTYPE-group-format=GFMT   format GTYPE input groups with GFMT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
      --line-format=LFMT          format all input lines with LFMT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
      --LTYPE-line-format=LFMT    format LTYPE input lines with LFMT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
    These format options provide fine-grained control over the output                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
      of diff, generalizing -D/--ifdef.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
    LTYPE is 'old', 'new', or 'unchanged'.  GTYPE is LTYPE or 'changed'.    

"What do you mean it isn't documented? Of course it's documented. You did read every line and do some template-substitution in your brain, didn't you?"

This isn't advocating for not reading the manpage. If you really want to understand how the tool works, you read the whole manpage. And probably the source code.

... but I don't want to understand how the tool works. I want to diff two files and not have the lines that are the same get emitted.

And I think a lot of application- and solution-generating computer people, most of the time, in most of their careers, are operating on that level of depth. Problems come in too fast and with too much variety. You absolutely go deep on some things. There is no time to go deep on everything.

So how do we address this (other than throw up our hands and say "Relying on Google's fuzzy search of the whole Internet and vibe-coding LLMs is the future actually")? I don't have magic bullets, but a "fuzzy search" mode in something like less that could take an input like --unchanged-group-format and twig that it if there's no exact match, it might be related to --GTYPE-group-format would be nice.

Maybe I should mock that up in emacs. Actually, I bet someone already put it in emacs. ;)

#Development #Guides
Giving up CSS pre/post-processors · Is it time to move on to native CSS? https://ilo.im/163dhy

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#ModernCSS #Sass #Less #Stylus #TailwindCSS #LightningCSS #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

Less Than One Year After Opening, a Hot Henderson Restaurant Closes https://www.diningandcooking.com/2028911/less-than-one-year-after-opening-a-hot-henderson-restaurant-closes/ #a #after #closes #Closings #eater #FrontPage #Henderson #hot #less #Mediterranean #MediterraneanRestaurants #one #Opening #restaurant #than #vegas #year

#less : not so large or great

- French: moins

- Italian: meno

- Portuguese: menos

- Spanish: menos

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Using the pager less, how would one search for a literal @?

When I type in / to start a search followed by @, no matter whether I type it oder paste it, less switches from search to First-file /.

Avec deux basses et une batterie, //LESS (noise punk / Tours) pourrait bien vite combler l'absence de Metz. Infos et écoute intégrale de son premier album 'Crawl In The Blur' sorti vendredi dernier chez A Tant Rêver Du Roi : https://www.mowno.com/news/infos/less-ou-comment-faire-plus-avec-moins/
Eve Coquelet
#less #newalbum #punknoise #nowplaying #nowlistening

I wonder if there are any alternative pagers out there besides less.

There are loads and loads of editors and #terminal emulators, but not so many pagers.

#FreeBSD #less "sysutils/less" port, with DISTVERSION= 661, links to PCRE, not #PCRE2. Why?

From "devel/pcre/Makefile" ...

DEPRECATED= EOLed by upstream, use devel/pcre2 instead

In Bugzilla failed to find any previous attempt to move to PCRE2.
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Submitted the patch to use PCRE2 instead: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=285599
# 6-month attention timer expires on ~20250919.

The best supermarket wines for under six euros in Spain https://www.diningandcooking.com/1965176/the-best-supermarket-wines-for-under-six-euros-in-spain/ #best #euros #for #less #six #SpanishWine #supermarket #than #the #Wine #wines

LESS (punk noise / Tours) dévoile 'Crawl In The Blur', nouvel extrait de l'album à sortir le 21 mars chez A Tant Rêver Du Roi : https://youtu.be/n4QrS5ELrIQ?si=kLmpD_eC4cQmapFh
#less #punkrock #noisrock #newsingle #nowplaying #nowlistening

We've just started the work of removing #less from our codebase. There are some mixins that need to be inlined the few places they are used, but apart from that it's mostly rewriting variables and media queries. The result is that we will be able to use modern css features like @starting-style, which currently aren't supported by less.

Setting the pager to vim in #jujutsu will cause terminal escaped sequences to be printed(unreadable). So for now I use less with custom keymaps.
#git
#less
#linux

https://linux.die.net/man/1/lesskey?__cf_chl_tk=YSKrLiGQYIMVQT5nXy.76WtjuGNYgycuWJ_Tecle5.A-1734941859-1.0.1.1-JXbbkzajhEuaSfbggm_cH2Nu4lhlNcAzQBv_fChuWYo

‘We’re going to sell Grandad’s old house,’ Dad said.

‘No! It’s so much fun there!’ Cherry complained.

‘And Mum grew up there!’ Apple chimed in.

‘We don’t need another house. And where we live is more practical,’ Dad explained.

‘But there’s #less room to play here! Grandad’s house has a big backyard.’ Cherry insisted.

‘There’s also the magic woods out beyond the yard,’ Apple added.

‘Apple, don’t put ideas in your sister’s head. There’s no magic woods,’ Dad said sternly.

‘Well, actually...’ Mum’s eyes lit up.

With the sound of pursuit approaching, they reined in at a fork in the trail.

"Which way?" asked the barbarian.

The rogue pointed left. "This one. #Less of them'll follow."

"That's wrong," snapped the seer.

"Okay, you should know." The barbarian trotted right.

The rogue glanced at his remaining companion with suspicion. "Why was I wrong?"

"You meant 'fewer', is why."

we all made a mess
be kind now love more not less
this is not a test

#haiku #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

#MastoPrompt #less
@stevencudahy

The #MastoPrompt for Thursday 5 December 2024 is:

#less

The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.

@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.

If you're including an image please do include alt-text so I can boost your post.
#Writing
#SmallPoem
#Poetry
#Fiction
#MicroFiction
#SmallStories

Fun learning of the day: Sometimes #Less (the style sheet language) calculates values, sometimes not. "@max-width-desktop" once gets replaced as "999px" and once as "1000px - 1px" - the letter doesn't work (in a media query at least)

Causes the wiki search bar to not appear on the #postmarketOS wiki.

I wanted to write a sassy comment about preprocessors, but decided against it. I don’t want people to think less of me.