title: How to make Less indicate location in percentage
body: <p>I now aim to show the percentage sign also when you run, for example, the command</p>
  
  <pre><code>man emacs
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  <p>If you run it, you get 'byte 3300' for instance.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049350/unable-to-make-less-to-indicate-location-in-percentage/1049398#1049398">Alex's answer</a> suggests me that we need to make a separate shell function by</p>
  
  <pre><code>man "$1"| col -b &gt; /tmp/manual
  less /tmp/manual
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  <p>where $1 refers to the first parameter.</p>
  
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  <p>The new problem is at the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1053707/unable-to-unbind-a-shell-function">thread</a>. <em>Thanks to Yuliy for the crux move!</em></p>