* On Wednesday 2005-11-16 at 22:54:58 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Charles Levert wrote: > > * On Tuesday 2005-11-15 at 23:06:46 +0100, Benno Schulenberg > > wrote: > > > BTW, when using --color=always and piping the output to 'less', > > > text in a line containing a coloured word cannot be searched > > > and found. > > > > I assume you are already using "less -R". > > $ echo $LESS > -RMicS -#20 > > When using -r instead of -R, the searching works okay, and the > horizontal scrolling a bit better. Why should -r be avoided?
Because it gives up on trying to understand any control-character based escape sequences and just lets everything through. It thus looses track of the correct column position. These days, the worst that can happen is that your terminal emulator may need to be reset because of this. In the past, a real terminal may have had a printer hooked up to it and someone could have attempted to send you a file containing escape sequences that divert output to your printer. A good pager would then protect you from this. > > Have you tried with a recent 'less' version, > > such as 385-cl4 or 393-cl1? > > Not yet. When you do, please tell me about any remaining horizontal scrolling problems. There may also be problems with UTF-8 and searching, but this can depend on the regexp library against which "less" is linked. I have addressed proper UTF-8 handling from the input file and from the search prompt, but haven't touched the search implementation itself. > > > > /* Other colors. Defaults look damn good. */ > > > > > > Please remove the strong word. > > > > Oh, come on! Have you never read the original > > version of GNU Emacs' terminal.el? > > No, hadn't... Hmm. There's no "damn" there. :) You wish there were. There's much worst. > It took a moment before it occurred to me what word I should be > looking for. Wow... Well, there it's the whole mood of the file, > here it's an isolated word. But that's just my opinion. You're > the man. Here is a copy of the US Supreme Court decision on George Carlin's famous "seven dirty words" comedy bit: <http://www.georgecarlin.com/> then "Documents" <http://www.georgecarlin.com/dirty/dirty3.html> He did say: "And, uh, bastard you can say, and hell and damn so I have to figure out which ones you couldn't..." I think he's the man regarding this, so if he said that "damn" is ok... And this was some 33 years ago.
