Wade Curry wrote:
> John H. Robinson, IV said:
> > James Keeline wrote:
> >> The subject pretty much says it all.  Sometimes I'd like to view a file 
> >> (not
> >> edit it) and less is a good tool.  However, as near as I can tell, it does 
> >> not
> >> offer the color syntax highlighting as seen in vim.
> >
> > I don't think so. But vim does. And vim can be configured to be used
> > like a pager. See the instructions here:
> >
> > http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=121
> >
> 
> I was pretty sure that vim needed no real configuration to do this.  I did a 
> google
> search and found a vim man page that says this:

It does need configuration to act as a $PAGER. Fortunatly, it comes with
macro set for less keybindings already, and a shell script to launch it.

-john

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