Re: Bug#8111: less package doesn't include LESSOPEN support (was Re: Warning!! PAGER=zless)
'Jason Gunthorpe wrote:'
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>On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
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>> 'Craig Sanders wrote:'
>> into less. Another bug in your script is that it doesn't support
>> uncompressing multiple files and saving marks in each of them and
>> hoping back and forth easily. Maybe someone can merge your approach
>
>Just tried less *.gz and :n :p, not a problem, less properly handled this.
I guess I shouldn't rely on two year old memories of how things work ;)
>> BTW, you don't need the | in your ENV variables.
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>Yes you do ;> Read the man page. Your method uses temp files, with the
>pipe symbol less runs the script and reads it's stdin for the actual
>data, if it shows nothing then the file is opened normaly. This is better
>because uncompressing/whatever is done in parallel with less's browsing.
>Uses more ram though.
It's been several years since I wrote my script. Maybe less has
changed?
>I do think that script that was posted earlier should be included in
>doc/less/examples, I wrote one exactly like it, it's really really handy
>to be able to do 'less blah.deb'!
Yes, I thought those additions were cool. And I hope to add them to
my script.
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