Using less in environment without controlling tty

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Friday 26 July 2013 23:42, Harald Becker wrote:
> My current (temporary) fix for this is, to patch Busybox to use
> fd #2 (stderr) als kbd_fd (kbd_fd = 2;) then it is possible to
> redirect output of less to any location you like:
> 
>  ... | less 2<>/dev/ttyN
> 
> This works fine in all tested cases, but needs patching of
> Busybox. So I really like to get a fix for this in main stream.
> 
> ... or are there any other suggestions on how to use less in
> such a situation?

Solution #1: get yourself a ctty. This will solve whole slew
of problems, instaed of fixing them one at a time.

Solution #2: implement something like "less --tty TTY"