This argument has been done to death. For the record yes, I agree with all of that and secretly I use it all the time. I only invoked the "useless use of cat"

This argument has been done to death. For the record yes, I agree with all of that and secretly I use it all the time. I only invoked the "useless use of cat" demon because in this case it makes an interesting difference. Less doesn't evaluate the escape sequences which make this attack work by default.