On 13 May 2012, at 06:57, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
> … 
>>>>> You can set LESSIGNORE='*.htm*'. This environment variable is used by
>>>>> the lesspipe command, which is invoked by less and filters the input
>>>>> file before giving it to less itself.
>>>> 
>> … 
>> I have here now:
>> 
>> $ env | grep -i less
>> PAGER=/usr/bin/less
>> LESS=-R -M --shift 5
>> LESSOPEN=|lesspipe %s
>> LESSIGNORE=*.htm*
>> $
> 
> … 
> 
> I would interpret the "don't do anything fancy" caveat on LESSIGNORE to mean 
> that wildcards may not work.  Some experimenting on my system shows me that 
> this version seems to do what you want:
> 
> LESSIGNORE="htm html"
> 
> I don't normally have LESSOPEN set, so I havn't seen this situation before.

Blimey! Thank you! That's wonderful!

:D

Stroller.


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