On 3/20/07, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
cga2000 wrote: > 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 >Hey, nice! I'm going to alias "less" with "/usr/bin/less -R" in my bash startup scripts. Best regards, Tony. -- Megaton Man: "LOOK at them! Helpless, tender creatures, relying on ME, waiting for ME to make my move!" (from below): "Move your ASS, Fat-head!" Megaton Man: "It is a MANDATE, and I am DUTY BOUND to OBEY!"
Another thing worth trying if you use something like zsh that supports global aliases is: alias -g L=" | less -R" which makes it so you can do: ls L Nifty, but if you use zsh, you probably already know that ;-) -fREW
