On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Whenever I press Shift-Return in "less" it displays "ESCOM". This is > annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press > "/" + "RETURN" > repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I > have a german keyboard and to type "/" I need to press Shift. But if I > hold down Shift too long "less" will not accept the return key but just > display "/ESCOM" in the last line. > > How can I make less accept Shift-Return?
I think the solution to your problem may be to push "n" which will give you the next instance of the search. (Look in less --help for details.) The reason less is printing ESCOM is because Shift-Return is actually \eOM which written out, will spell ESC O M. ESCOM. Simon