Dear misc@ readers,
After the recent switch to less(1) from Illumos, I noticed that the
--RAW-CONTROL-CHARS option, although documented, isn't supported
anymore:
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┌──[just22@poseidon]-[0]-[✓]-[~]
└─────› colorls -Gla | less --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS
There is no RAW-CONTROL-CHARS option ("less --help" for help)
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Instead, "-R" is still accepted; but the behavior is still confusing,
since it seems that ANSI color escape sequences are output in raw form
by default; i.e. both:
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┌──[just22@poseidon]-[0]-[✓]-[~]
└─────› colorls -G | less
[....................snip....................]
and:
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┌──[just22@poseidon]-[0]-[✓]-[~]
└─────› colorls -G | less -R
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give the exact same result. Should we remove the "-R" option completely
(from the man page too) or am I missing something obvious?
Thanks for your time
--
Alessandro DE LAURENZIS
[mailto:just22....@gmail.com]
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis
