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Date:      Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:26:24 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
Cc:        bv@wjv.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a better  lesskey helper
Message-ID:  <86hcjuglzz.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <4734EA16.5090800@chuckr.org> (Chuck Robey's message of "Fri\, 09 Nov 2007 18\:15\:34 -0500")
References:  <20071109222421.037E116A494@hub.freebsd.org> <20071109224531.GA58036@wjv.com> <4734EA16.5090800@chuckr.org>

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Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> writes:
> That sort of behavior is (I think, I haven't yet checked most) what I
> am suggesting be brought into less.  Look, let me repeat, now that I
> have gotten confirmation that I wasn't wrong (thanks to Carl).  It's
> this:
>
> 1: modify our lesspipe.sh, so that, in addition to the detection of
> various tar archives (along with compression), it also detects various
> elf images, and uses objdump to display the info.  Less will keep the
> current behavior on any other binaries it hits, only decoding the elf
> images.
>
> 2) add 1 line to our /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile (to cover those
> sh and csh compatible shells) so that the lesspipe.sh functionality no
> longer needs folks to remember zless.  I don't think it's needed, but
> if users ask for it, it would be trivial to code up a variable, like
> LESS_WITHOUT_LESSPIPE, that if defined could even block out these
> changes.  I can't see why folks would not want it, but I'm not fanatic
> over it.
>
> 3) remove zless.

None of that will happen.  You are free to use your own lesspipe.sh on
your own system, or install sysutils/most from ports, but the base
system's lesspipe.sh will not change, LESSOPEN will not be defined in
the default environment, and zless will stay.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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