Hi there
Sorry for delay in replying but still unwell (cue sadness and despondancy to
descend on list) ....
On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 19:19:13 +1200
Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:03:38PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>
> > doesn't make it looke like I want to start either. The man page
> > doesn't say anything at all about rendering html. less 378+iso254.
>
> That's because less doesn't render HTML.
>
But it does!!
Not all the time i'll admit - this depends on the html file in question - but
when it does 'work' (ie the file's rendered) the following text appears as the
first line:
==> append : to filename to view the HTML source
and if you do do this you'll be looking at the file as marked up html source,
as promised.
less version 381 at this end.
by the by thanks to this sub-thread i've learnt a lot about less.
i never realised it could do so much.
its homepage <http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less> was well worth the read
i reckon.
AHHH NO!
Bugger it - i've been exploring and found out how it's done.
/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh is using lynx.
at line 260 i find -
elif [[ "$1" = *HTML* ]]; then
echo "==> append $sep to filename to view the HTML source"
lynx -dump -force_html "$2"
never mind.
lesspipe is quite cool.
it's a preprocessor for less which - quoting from its homepage
<http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~friebel/unix/lesspipe.html> - provides
Support for the following compression methods:
----------------------------------------------
gzip, compress, pack requires gzip
bzip2 requires bzip2
zip requires unzip
Preprocesssing of the following file types (also compressed):
-------------------------------------------------------------
tar requires GNU tar
nroff(mandoc) requires groff
ar library requires ar
shared library requires nm
executable requires strings
directory
RPM requires rpm, rpm2cpio and GNU cpio
Microsoft Word requires antiword
Debian requires dpkg, dpkg-deb
html requires html2text or lynx
pdf requires pdftotext
perl requires pod2text
unmounted media requires programs to read from these media
(GNU file 3.27 or above, tar, mdir, mtype, mtoolstest)
rtf requires unrtf (and optionally html2text)
dvi requires dvi2tty
ps requires pstotext or ps2ascii and gs
mp3 requires mp3info
So my apologies to you Matthew(as you said) less doesn't render html after
all.
cheers
peter
