Package: less Version: 444-1 Severity: wishlist Hi there! The discussion started on the debian-devel@ mailing list: <http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/4E4A258D.6090402%40debian.org> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:38:43 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:50:49AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:08:45 +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: >> > FWIW, if you the following in your bashrc: >> > >> > if [ -f /usr/bin/lesspipe ]; then >> >> I would use the -x expression instead ;-) >> >> And I would also say that this test should be included in the >> lesspipe(1) manpage... Here we are. > /etc/skel/.profile has it, commented out: On sid it has not. But /etc/skel/.bashrc:23 does ;-) However, the lesspipe manpage says: USAGE Just put one of the following two commands in your login script (e.g. ~/.bash_profile): eval "$(lessfile)" or eval "$(lesspipe)" I think the manpage should: 1) document the full snippet above as the one to be put in login script, i.e. with the test as well. 2) be consistent with what Debian ships in /etc/skel/ files, i.e. if the snippet is in .bashrc, the manpage should reflect that and not suggest .bash_profile. > # make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1) > #[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)" I do not understand why we need to specify SHELL, however. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages less depends on: ii debianutils 4.0.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.13-16 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.9-1 shared libraries for terminal hand less recommends no packages. less suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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