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 -- Jede Nation spottet über die andere, und alle haben recht. -- Schopenhauer
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