Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 19:04:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, ache@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LESS cleanup? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960512190256.30172C-100000@gilligan.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605122053.WAA00658@grumble.grondar.za>
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On Sun, 12 May 1996, Mark Murray wrote:
> Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:
> > #define quoting(Satoshi Asami)
> > // * +.if defined(COLOUR_LESS) && ${COLOUR_LESS} == YES
> >
> > Does this mean it will make a color version of less, or
> > that it will make color-less version of less ? :)
>
> It means it will make the colour version of less. It replaces
> the color: target of less, avoiding the necessity of having to
> go ``make color'' if you want colour less.
OK, I played with the color less ... I did an ls |less, and since I'm
using a color version of ls, colors came out. What surprised me is that
the columns were all messed up. Do you think less is misinterpreting the
color escape sequences as taking tab positions?
Does anyone know of a reference to what those color sequences are?
>
> M
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