Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote on Wed Jun 12, 2002 um 11:59:48PM: > links or galeon. Galeon will automatically decompress the gzipped > ones (IIRC). Wrong. Netscape 4.x did, Mozilla and Galeon do not. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Es kann aeusserst gefaehrlich sein, etwas ohne ausreichende

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-16 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 14:24 Uhr +0200 14.06.2002, Ulf Rompe wrote: Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I wish more things supported transparently viewing gzipped files :) I remember there once was a library which overloaded the original libc functions for opening files. You had to preload it by setting th

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-14 Thread Ulf Rompe
Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wish more things supported transparently viewing gzipped files :) I remember there once was a library which overloaded the original libc functions for opening files. You had to preload it by setting the variable LD_PRELOAD to this lib (like you do with

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:43:59AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:23:23PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: > | I'd say I'm pretty much joe average: emacs isn't even on my system, and > | after two years of using linux I still don't know how to cut and paste > | in vim :)

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:23:23PM -0700, Rich Rudnick wrote: | On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote: | > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > > I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't | > > compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 | > > autom

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:08:25PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote: > Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 > > ya cant live without it :) I have mc running permanently on one virtual terminal and use it frequently so I wouldn't dream of challenging your second statement. Pressing F

Re: mc-like X app (was: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?)

2002-06-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Joris([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 > > > > ya cant live without it :) > > I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not > worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user-friendly either. >

Re: mc-like X app (was: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?)

2002-06-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:10:31PM +0200, Joris wrote: > > Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 > > > > ya cant live without it :) > > I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not > worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user

mc-like X app (was: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?)

2002-06-13 Thread Joris
> Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 > > ya cant live without it :) I can't ;-) does anyone know an X alternative to it? imho, gmc is not worth being called the gnome mc, and xnc is't too user-friendly either. The ultimate graphical file manager for me would look like WinComm

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Matt Chipman
Just install mc and browse to the docs dir and press F3 ya cant live without it :) -Matt - Original Message - From: "Brian Potkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 7:22 PM Subject: Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless? > On T

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Brian Potkin
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do > to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course > uses emacs' dired's "v" with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be > ideal. However then o

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do > to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? $ mc point and F3 mc is selected by tasksel with newbie option. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
> > Does debian ship /usr/bin/lesspipe? In what package? I always have [...] > # dpkg -S /usr/bin/lesspipe > less: /usr/bin/lesspipe > > There you go. In woody, at least. I must have been blind because I see it now too. In any case the installation of less includes a debconf that says this:

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do > to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course > uses emacs' dired's "v" with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be > ideal. However then on

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I put ' LESSOPEN="|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s" ' in /etc/profile, and less > > will transparently unzip and display the file. > > Does debian ship /usr/bin/lesspipe? In what package? I always have > it set to LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" and it finds ~/b

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
> I put ' LESSOPEN="|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s" ' in /etc/profile, and less > will transparently unzip and display the file. Does debian ship /usr/bin/lesspipe? In what package? I always have it set to LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" and it finds ~/bin/lesspipe.sh in my home directory. Bob pgpz69WXXlF

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 22:00, Chris Gushue wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't > > compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 > > automatically decompresses .gz files). > > I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-13 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do > to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course > uses emacs' dired's "v" with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be > ideal. However then on

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-12 Thread Chris Gushue
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I use either zless (just like I would have used 'less' if it wasn't compressed) or more often 'view' (vim in read-only mode; vim6 automatically decompresses .gz files). I'm pretty sure that Vim 5.x (5.6? 5.7?) did in Debian as well. I wish more things supported tra

Re: so how do the pros read all those .gz docs, zless?

2002-06-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:13:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. Nicely compressed to conserve your disk space :-). | What does Joe Average do to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and | over? I don't know, I'm not "Joe Average". (some people call me "