On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:07 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 07:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 April 2007 08:19:47 Graham Murray wrote:
> > > Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > First of all I believe most people (including myself) very much prefer
...
> >
> > Not really. Just use --color=y if you want colors through a pipe.
>
> Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output. Passing --color=y to either
> tells me things like:
> ==============================
> There is no color=y option ("less --help" for help)
> ==============================
...
What I would like to know is why less in a console does give colour
syntax highlighting, but does NOT do so in any of the X terminals Ive
tried ...
I did bring this up on the list some time back and I think its a bug,
but lost track of the thread due to lack of time.
BillK
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