Is there a way to get Vim-style modal editing in a Linux pager? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by CoderSupreme@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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I’d like to be able to navigate text in a pager with Vim-style modal editing (moving with hjkl and yank/paste with y/p). Is there a way to enable this in the default pager, or is there an alternative pager that supports this kind of modal behavior?

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[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

I'm on my phone, but when using less "v" opens the file in $EDITOR. I don't remember if it defaults to read only

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