@tetris11@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml • 2 days agoLess vs More, what's your poison?message-square46fedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down13
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minus-square@MonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilink6•1 day agoLESSOPEN='| highlight --line-numbers -qs candy --out-format=xterm256 --stdout -i %s'
minus-square@MonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilink3•edit-21 day agoSys env. It adds syntax highlighting to less. Needs the highlight tool of course, there are others.
minus-square@tetris11@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilink2•edit-21 day agooh, it literally pipes into another tool! I thought that vertical bar was a config option for less lmao
minus-square@MonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilink2•23 hours agoYeah, less is weird there with needing the pipe.
LESSOPEN='| highlight --line-numbers -qs candy --out-format=xterm256 --stdout -i %s'is that an alias or a sys env?
Sys env. It adds syntax highlighting to less. Needs the
highlighttool of course, there are others.oh, it literally pipes into another tool! I thought that vertical bar was a config option for less lmao
Yeah, less is weird there with needing the pipe.