Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe
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Manoj Srivastava, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> I know that. The accepted way of using less used to be to use
> a upstream filter. Right now, it is done like so:
>______________________________________________________________________
>__> printenv | grep -i less
>PAGER=less -ciM
>LESSOPEN=|lessopen %s
>LESS=-ciMP?f%f :std in .?n?m(file %i of %m) ..?ltline %lt :byte %bB?s/%s ..?e(END) ?x- Next\: %x.:?pB%pB\%..%t
>LESSCHARSET=latin1
>__> eval $(lesspipe)
>__> printenv | grep -i less
>PAGER=less -ciM
>LESSCLOSE=/usr/bin/lesspipe '%s' '%s'
>LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe '%s'
>LESS=-ciMP?f%f :std in .?n?m(file %i of %m) ..?ltline %lt :byte %bB?s/%s ..?e(END) ?x- Next\: %x.:?pB%pB\%..%t
>LESSCHARSET=latin1
>______________________________________________________________________
>
> See how the distribution now uses lesspipe?
No, I don't see the difference between "|lessopen %s" and "|/usr/bin/lesspipe '%s'"
considering that lesspipe is a link to lessopen and using the ' protects
against spaces and special characters. Could you please elucidate?
> I am bemoaning the fact that lesspipe is not directly usable
> by me anymore, since all the stuff got added to it.
I'm open to suggestions on how to change it so that everybody is
happy...
What about an environment variable about what items to use/not-use. I
think a config file would have too much overhead.
Darren
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