Dear misc@ readers, After the recent switch to less(1) from Illumos, I noticed that the --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS option, although documented, isn't supported anymore:
[....................snip....................] ┌──[just22@poseidon]-[0]-[✓]-[~] └─────› colorls -Gla | less --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS There is no RAW-CONTROL-CHARS option ("less --help" for help) [....................snip....................] Instead, "-R" is still accepted; but the behavior is still confusing, since it seems that ANSI color escape sequences are output in raw form by default; i.e. both: [....................snip....................] ┌──[just22@poseidon]-[0]-[✓]-[~] └─────› colorls -G | less [....................snip....................] and: [....................snip....................] ┌──[just22@poseidon]-[0]-[✓]-[~] └─────› colorls -G | less -R [....................snip....................] give the exact same result. Should we remove the "-R" option completely (from the man page too) or am I missing something obvious? Thanks for your time -- Alessandro DE LAURENZIS [mailto:just22....@gmail.com] LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis