Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 17:45:31 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a better lesskey helper Message-ID: <20071109224531.GA58036@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20071109222421.037E116A494@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20071109222421.037E116A494@hub.freebsd.org>
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The time has come the freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org said, to talk of many things but all that was heard on Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 22:24 was whether pigs have wings - or: > Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:34:08 -0500 > From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> > Subject: Re: a better lesskey helper > Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > > Nikolay Pavlov <qpadla@gmail.com> writes: > >> There is already such a file there. You just need to proper set an > >> environment: setenv LESSOPEN '|lesspipe.sh %s' > > zless will do that for you. > > DES > Now I'm getting a bit confused. I know you from long before, and > I know you wouldn't make mistakes easily. MY zless here doesn't > decode executables and libs, but there's no man page, and zless > --help gives only the standard less help info, so I don;'t know > what zless does that less didn't do before I changed out the > lesspipe.sh on my local system. > I really wouldn't want to bother folks anymore on this if I'm > all wet? Does your less not decode tar.gz things? What does your > zless do that your less doesn't? Does either your zless or your > less decode executables and libraries (via a objdump pipe)? > I gotta admit, I'd never heard of zless. I've found that 'most' is quite handy. It decodes binaries when it finds thems, it decompresses gzipped files. It's in /usr/ports/sysutils/most Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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