I need less to display a file without any additional formatting characters.
I found the --tilde option, which got rid of the ~ characters.
Now I only need to get rid of the:
(END)
or
<filename> (END)
at the and of the page.
I am happy to recompile less , if somebody can suggest what needs to be changed in the sourcecode.
I am using less 487 on Debian 10.