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.
There are also other reasons to not force it upon users, especially not
upon those which lack the experience to check the docs:
caphuso@f311 ~ $ less -E textfile.r10
No rar or unrar available
caphuso@f311 ~ $ cat textfile.r10
this is a silly little text file
caphuso@f311 ~ $
or, if rar is installed:
caphuso@f311 ~ $ less -E textfile.r10
UNRAR 3.10 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2002 Eugene Roshal
textfile.r10 is not RAR archive
How good are the chances that people who don't know about
$LESS{OPEN,CLOSE} can handle this?
Stephen Rüger
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