Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe
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Richard Braakman, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>One reason I like less is that it's so fast. I sometimes use it on
>thousands of files at once. (For example, when searching a source
>package for uses of a particular identifier).
I've been thinking about that. (When not mono-focused on this grant.)
In slink, I'm thinking of re-writing lessopen in C so that it will be
faster. Shell scripts are slow, so is starting up Perl a lot. Loading
binaries is fast.
>This seems like a bad idea. "strings" is not the obvious information
>to provide about an executable. (Consider size, objdump, od, hexdump,
>et cetera).
Okay. Sounds good to me. I wanted at least one objection though so
that I wasn't just disregarding the user's request out of hand.
Darren
P.S. less is ready and waiting on master. The new Perl package on the
other hand isn't but should be done this weekend if I can get this grant
out of the way.
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