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On 13 May 2012, at 00:22, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>>> You can set LESSIGNORE='*.htm*'. This environment variable is used by |
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>>> the lesspipe command, which is invoked by less and filters the input |
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>>> file before giving it to less itself. |
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>> Contrary to my previous email, sent in error, that does NOT work. |
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>> Did you check this yourself? |
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> Yes. I did not know about this mechanism before, but 'env|grep -i less' |
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> showed the LESS and LESSOPEN environment variable, so I learnt about the |
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> lesspipe command. lesspipe -h gives a little info, LESSIGNORE is shown |
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> there. |
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I have here now: |
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$ env | grep -i less |
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PAGER=/usr/bin/less |
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LESS=-R -M --shift 5 |
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LESSOPEN=|lesspipe %s |
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LESSIGNORE=*.htm* |
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$ |
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And still the same thing. |
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>> What version of less are you using, please? I have =sys-apps/less-444 |
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>> installed here. |
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> 445-r1, but I just downgraded to 444, and it behaves the same. I have the |
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> pcre and unicode USE flags set, but don't assume they make any |
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> difference. Weird, no idea why it it not working for you. |
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Thanks for your help. |
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`less -L file.html` works for me - I've got a way of dealing with this, and I'm busy with other stuff right now, so I'm just going to forget worrying about LESSIGNORE. |
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I post the above output showing my less environment only for the benefit of anyone else encountering this in the future - perhaps it gives them something to go on. |
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I appreciate your assistance, |
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Stroller. |
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