Re: [desktop] Improving "user-friendly" in some console applications
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:24:11PM -0500, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Jean-Michel Kelbert wrote:
> > For exemple, on Mandrake less permit him to show html, tar.gz... not
> > on Debian.
>
> This is done by setting the LESSOPEN and/or LESSCLOSE env. variables.
>
> Read /usr/share/doc/less/LESSOPEN for information on how to set this up.
>
> As far as making it the default, Thomas has (apparently) decided not
> to, and I agree. I routinely use less to look at raw gzip files and
> other odd files, and I suppose others do also.
It would be nice if this were commented out in the .bashrc. It's something
that I didn't know about until just now. Would've saved me from typing a lot
of z's. I would like it as the default behavior, but I'm assuming there's a
good reason that it's not.
Sean
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