The web seems to be full of resources for making less stop wrapping long lines by default and chop them instead. I have the opposite problem. It is chopping be default and I want to make it stop. I want word wrapping turned back on by default, but all I can find are instructions for the other way around. I've tried reversing them, but none of the methods seem to be employed to be reversed.
My problem developed about a month ago and is across a number of systems. I suspect it might actually be my dotfiles somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find it.
less is not aliased to anything in my shell, it is not a function, nor am I getting some binary other than the system default:
$ which less
/usr/bin/less
I am not running with the -S argument:
$ ps waux | grep less
caleb 3151 0.0 0.0 13592 1036 pts/14 S+ 16:06 0:00 less
I do not have anything set in ~/.lesskey:
$ cat ~/.lesskey
cat: /home/caleb/.lesskey: No such file or directory
And yet line chopping is turned on everywhere it is instantiated. I have to turn it off with -SEnter every time.
The man page clearly states this is the opposite of the expected behavior:
$ man less
...
-S or --chop-long-lines
Causes lines longer than the screen width to be chopped (truncated)
rather than wrapped. That is, the portion of a long line that does
not fit in the screen width is not shown. The default is to wrap long
lines; that is, display the remainder on the next line.
...
Because it is a default there doesn't seem to be a command line switch to turn this off. Where else could this be getting set so I can find it and eradicate it?
Options are also taken from the LESS environment variable. Check if it has been set with echo "$LESS".
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