`less` command is misbehaving

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I am trying to understand the weird behaviour of less on nixOS.
Version is less 679 (PCRE2 regular expressions).

When I try to limit the output of less with -n, I can go up to 31 lines. Once I do -n 32, no line is printed. As if the formula for the actual line limit was $(-n) % 32. After that, the wrap is every 71 lines. Doing -n 103 yields 0 lines, as does 174, 245, and so on.

Can anyone reproduce this behaviour?
What could be the reason for this?

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Just a hunch, can you try with export LESSOPEN= first, then run your less command?

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I f’ed up, I meant tail. My bad, Opening a new post. Thanks anyway!