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On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:22:24AM +0800, Penguin Lover W.Kenworthy squawked: |
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> I recently had cause to use "less" from a real console, not an xterm and |
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> found that it really does colourise text. It has never done this in an |
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> xterm - how do I turn it on? "man" isnt being very helpful here :( |
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> BillK |
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My best guess is the -R option: |
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-R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS |
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Like -r, but only ANSI "color" escape sequences are output |
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in "raw" form. Unlike -r, the screen appearance is main- |
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tained correctly in most cases. ANSI "color" escape |
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sequences are sequences of the form: |
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ESC [ ... m |
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where the "..." is zero or more color specification char- |
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acters For the purpose of keeping track of screen appear- |
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ance, ANSI color escape sequences are assumed to not move |
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the cursor. You can make less think that characters other |
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than "m" can end ANSI color escape sequences by setting |
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the environment variable LESSANSIENDCHARS to the list of |
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characters which can end a color escape sequence. And you |
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can make less think that characters other than the stan- |
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dard ones may appear between the ESC and the m by setting |
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the environment variable LESSANSIMIDCHARS to the list of |
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characters which can appear. |
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HTH, |
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(04:01:59) W: yep |
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(04:02:02) W: I love linux |
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(04:02:15) NJYWT: I love penguins |
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Sortir en Pantoufles: up 91 days, 11:36 |
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