On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:50:12PM EST, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:

[..]

"more" shows the colors with no problem. In general, I use:
> 
> - less
>   - when there is a long listing which I want to be able to scroll back and 
> forth, or to search with a / command
>   - not when there are interspersed ANSI-like escape sequences as in "ls 
> --color".

[OT] 

You could try "less -R".

Works for me, although a quick look at the man page suggests this might
not work under all circumstances: ".. tries to keep track .." 

In any case I have aliased "b" as in "browse" to "less -R -M" and never
had a problem.

Thanks,
cga

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