To make Less (the pager program) behave a bit more as if it used Readline (it doesn't), one can create a `~/.config/lesskey` file with these contents: #line-

To make Less (the pager program) behave a bit more as if it used Readline (it doesn't), one can create a `~/.config/lesskey` file with these contents: #line-edit ^A home ^E end ^F right ^B left ^P up ^N down ^D delete ^W word-backspace \ed word-delete \ef word-right I think a relatively recent version of Less is required.