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Re: [proposal] remove the requirement to compress documentation



Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:

> I think the same argument can be made for PDF and text files; while it's
> true some tools can cope with the compression, the number of times I tab
> complete a less </usr/share/doc/xxx> command to find it's an unreadable
> mess, and have to repeat that with [xx]less or some other tool is very
> frequent--usually several times a day.

Apart from the merits of this proposal, a personal recommendation: add
eval "$(lesspipe)" to your .bash_profile and be happy.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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