Hi, well, that's right, I don't want text(file) processors for less :-) Frankly spoken, including optional text(file) processors would very likely raise questions and requests to make (at least some of) them standard... What I have done a few years ago was to offer users a standard interface to integrate their own custom file processors. I still believe that's the right way to go to process text files.
As far as manpages are concerned: man itself can use less as a pager program. But maybe this does not offer all the features that you'd like to have? Thomas -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:27:19 -0700 Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Betreff: Bug#205702: less: provide text preprocessors as an option for users > Package: less > Version: 394-2 > Followup-For: Bug #205702 > > > it would be nice if you could provide the text preprocessors, such as for > man pages, as an option, perhaps as a separate script. > > it is not trivial for users to figure out how to process man pages to > work with less. recently, my setup which worked fine on man zshall > stopped including the other pages, and the zsoelim error messages > disappeared because less took over the screen and they did not appear > after less quit. i don't have the time now to try to fix it, so i am > stuck with running less without good man page support or running man > without good paging support (i like to go to the next file inside less > rather than one at a time). > > we get it that you don't want to have less preprocess text :-). but > doing so as an option should be beneficial, without affecting > default behavior. > > thanks. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.16myver > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > > Versions of packages less depends on: > ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities > specific t > ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared > libraries > ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal > hand > > less recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*! "Feel free" mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
