Simon Geard wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:01 +0100, taipan67 wrote:
>
>> My version of less (394) recognises html to the extent that it
>> displays the text similarly to a man-page - the html-tags themselves
>> are not reproduced as text, so it's readable.
>>
>
> Really? How do you make it do that - I've never seen that behaviour from
> less, and it's certainly not the default behaviour...
>
> Simon.
>
Well, i suddenly feel very foolish. I just realised that i was working
on my Gentoo box when i discovered this capability, & you're absolutely
right, it's not standard behaviour, it's one of the Gentoo-dev's
'enhancements'. They set up less to operate through a bash-script which
adds this capability along with several others, including coloured
output, which i didn't know about, as i need to initialise it with an
environment-variable.
I haven't got anywhere to upload the script to for folks to have a look
at, but it's included in 'portage' if anyone wants to download a
snapshot of that (sys-apps/less/files/lesspipe.sh) - doing so would
probably be handy for a lot of people anyway, as the ebuild-scripts
often offer clues to solving problems for manual builds like {,b}lfs.
My profuse apologies for the misleading information.
taipan
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