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less (pager)
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 7 threads.
People raised many different problems with less (pager), but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Wide tables are awkward to view in less2026-06-05
- Regex search is so slow on large files it's unusable, forcing workarounds2026-01-03
- Opening rotated log files causes an annoying pause from unwanted preprocessing2026-01-02
- Can't find the key to leave waiting mode without quitting the pager2024-06-05
- Switches to edit mode too easily, with little warning, when only viewing2015-03-31
- Filtering with &pattern is extremely slow on large files, unlike grep2014-09-07
- Must write regular expressions to quickly find a specific option2014-01-26