less is literally more

As an Emacs user, your muscle memories constantly remind you of certain behavior of it when you had to use other Unix tools. I was recently viewing a large file using less and searched for ErrorCode by just typing errorcode and surprised to find that it did not find any match. Then, I searched by typing ErrorCode and it did find a match containing the word, which reminded me of the fact that less by default is case sensitive. I then set out to find if I can tell less to ignore case by reading man pages. I am pleasantly surprised to read following:

-i or --ignore-case
	      Causes searches to ignore case; that is, uppercase and lowercase
	      are  considered identical.  This option is ignored if any upper-
	      case letters appear in the search pattern; in other words, if  a
	      pattern  contains  uppercase  letters, then that search does not
	      ignore case.

That is exactly how Emacs isearch behaves by default. I added following alias to my bash config to make above the default for less.

alias less='less -i'

Once again, less is literally more and you could do more using less.