Χάρης Καραχριστιανίδης wrote in
 <20230218164345.ake5b%haris...@otenet.gr>:
 |Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
 ....
 |>|I have no srt set. With crt=20 no colour at all. It seems that when \
 |>|less opens there is no colour and when it doesn't open there is colour?
 |> 
 |> You seem to have the $LESS environment variable set.
 |> There is a note on that for $PAGER:
 ...
 |> You surely need -R (there was a security advisory regarding that,
 |> less should be >= 608) in $LESS for colours, if you set it
 |> yourself.  I have
 |> 
 |>   #?0|kent:tmp$ echo $LESS
 |>   -IFe
 |>   #?0|kent:tmp$ alias v
 |>   alias v='LESS= less -RIFe'
 ...
 |Is seems I already have -R?
 |
 |$ echo $LESS
 |-R -M --shift 5

Ah!  Sorry Hariskar, you need "set colour-pager"!

This is long obsolete here, in v14.10 the variable does nothing:
you have to "set colour-disable" or not use colours at all.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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