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John Myers schreef: |
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> On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:37, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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>> No. I don't actually use colordiff standalone, so no reason. I did, |
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>> however, have an (unnecessary) alias around etc-update, which I |
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>> have now removed, allowing it to rely solely on its sudo entry. But |
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>> since I don't have any updates to diff until I get my other little |
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>> problem fixed, |
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> Try changing your 'pager' variable in etc-update.conf from 'less' to |
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> 'less -R'. |
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Thank you John. During the course my various arguments with ~/.bashrc |
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today (after reading this), I also happened across a note in man |
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tsportageview (don't ask, whole 'nother story) which said: |
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-s, --use-less |
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Filter the output through "less -Rh0" (good colour support) |
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So it seems pretty clear that the -R switch is essential for color |
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support. I adjusted my pager command to include it and think that it's |
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likely to work properly now. |
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But of course I never would have noticed that the switch in man |
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tsportageview confirmed that -R is really needed for color support in |
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less (despite having skimmed man less), if you hadn't said so first. |
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So thank you very much. |
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Holly |
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