Editing Less (Unix) (section)

==History==
[[Mark Nudelman]] initially wrote <code>less</code> during 1983–85, in the need of a version of <code>[[More (command)|more]]</code> able to do backward scrolling of the displayed text. The name came from the joke of doing "backwards more." Originally, <code>less</code> was developed for Unix, but it has been ported to a number of other operating systems, including [[MS-DOS]], [[Microsoft Windows]], [[OS/2]], and [[OS-9]], as well as [[Unix-like]] systems such as [[Linux]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/faq.html#unix |title = Less FAQ}}</ref> It is still maintained today by Nudelman.

To help remember the difference between <code>less</code> and <code>more</code>, a common joke is to say, "{{mono|less > more}}," implying that <code>less</code> has greater functionality than {{mono|more}}. A similar saying is that "<code>less</code> is <code>more</code>, more or less".