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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:51:36 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
Subject:   Re: a  better  lesskey  helper
Message-ID:  <200711121751.37051.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <868x57jfti.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <4733AA45.6030905@chuckr.org> <4734C440.4070100@chuckr.org> <868x57jfti.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Friday 09 November 2007 03:59:21 pm Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:
> Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> writes:
> > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav 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.
> > 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.
>=20
> "that" refers to Nikolay's setenv trick.  If you actually define
> LESSOPEN in your environment, less will always use it, which may not be
> what you want; instead, you can use less when you want to see the actual
> file and zless when you want it "decoded".

less -L

=2D-=20
John Baldwin



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