Import version 458 of "less". Changes since version 444:
* Allow backslash escaping of metacharacters in LESS environment variable
after the --use-backslash option.
* Don't quit if syntax errors ar

Import version 458 of "less". Changes since version 444:
* Allow backslash escaping of metacharacters in LESS environment variable
after the --use-backslash option.
* Don't quit if syntax errors are found in command line options.
* Increase sizes of some internal buffers.
* Fix configure bug with --with-regex=none.
* Fix crash with "stty rows 0".
* Fix display bug when using up/down arrow on the command line.
* Add ESC-F command to keep reading data until a pattern is found.
* Use exit code of LESSOPEN script if LESSOPEN starts with "||".
* When up/down arrow is used on the command line immediately after
typing text, the next command starting with that text is found.
* Add support for GNU regex.
* Add configure option --with-regex=none and fix compile errors
when compiling with no regex library.
* Fix possible crashes caused by malformed LESSOPEN or
LESSCLOSE variables.
* Fix bug highlighting text which is discontiguous in the file
due to backspace processing.
* Fix bug in displaying status column when scrolling backwards
with -J and -S in effect.

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Import version 444 of "less":
The list of changes between our ancient version 394 and 444 is too long
to list here. You can find all the release notes here:

http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/old

Import version 444 of "less":
The list of changes between our ancient version 394 and 444 is too long
to list here. You can find all the release notes here:

http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/old.html

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