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From: "Thomas Rösner" <Thomas.Roesner@××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:06:51
Message-Id: 4567A50C.4000809@digital-trauma.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation by Willie Wong
1 Willie Wong wrote:
2 > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:22:24AM +0800, Penguin Lover W.Kenworthy squawked:
3 >
4 >> I recently had cause to use "less" from a real console, not an xterm and
5 >> found that it really does colourise text. It has never done this in an
6 >> xterm - how do I turn it on? "man" isnt being very helpful here :(
7 >>
8 >> BillK
9 >>
10 >
11 > My best guess is the -R option:
12 >
13
14 This is for programs having color output you want to pipe to less, not
15 less showing a syntax highlighted file. This is done by the gentoo less
16 filter that automagically unzips README.gz files when viewing them with
17 less, fx. Does ls --color=auto produce colors in your xterm? Is your
18 TERM envvar set to xterm (xterm should do this)? Do you have compared
19 the current /etc/skel files to your user's home; when you create a new
20 user with those files in his home, does xterm/less work for this account
21 as intended?
22
23 Regards,
24 T.
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Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>