Hi:

How can I do to make less not to do line wraparound? That is, if there is a line exceeding 80 chars, I want to see only the first 80 ones. Of course, if I wish, I would afterwards be able to see the rest of the line by pressing the End key.

A similar question would go for vim. Thanks for reading.

Hi,

try to invoke less like
This will not wrap the lines but chop them instead. You can press the right arrow key if you want to see the rest of the line. Pressing END brings you to the end of the file.

Hi:

I tried it. And it worked. Just as you said. What happened is that less man, in my system, is 1512 lines long. I should have spend a whole day in order to find the option which, even worse, I did not even knew if it existed. But thanks to you, it was a matter of some minutes.

Not satisfied with this, I wanted to do the same with vim. To make a long story short, in www.vim.org>FAQ I saw the word 'wrap'. Then
And my question was magically answered. In a 0 to 1000000 scale, my vim knowledge has raised from about 5 to 5.001!

P.S.: just out of curiosity, was there any particular reason why you chose crts as your LQ username?

No specific reason. Why? Is it an abbreviation of something that I am not aware of?

Well, to be precise, it is the plural form of an old one: Cathode Ray Tube.
Up to some years ago, it was the usual output console for a programmer. Nowadays, it seems we are in the dawn of a new era, where CRTs will only be an object of curiosity. And to tell you the truth, I was very fond of them. All the best.