From: Brian Foster (blf at domain utvinternet.ie)
Date: Sat 22 Jun 2002 - 06:13:14 IST
| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 02:22:57 +0100
| From: kevin lyda <kevin at domain ie.suberic.net>
|
| On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:22:09AM +0100, Brian Foster wrote:
| > I'm writing a wrapper shell script around less(1) for various
| > bizarre reasons that are not particularly relevant [ ... ]
|
| probably won't be helpful in your case, but less has several useful
| environment variables. the less man page has a very useful explaination
| of the LESSOPEN environment var. it's quite possible to configure less
| to page through a lot of things in a handy way. my lessopen script
| works like so:
| [ ... useful example deleted ... ]
| essentially, less is like the emacs of pagers.
thanks for the hint! as it so happens, my approach blew up in a
number of subtle fashions in the intended application (albeit it
worked Ok standalone) --- part of a multi-locale/charset interface
to the nmh-1.0.4/MH.6.8 MUA --- so that I had to rethink much of
the design .... ;-(
the approach I'm now using, whilst it has not (yet) migrated into
LESSOPEN, probably could make that step, which does appear to be
the next(?) natural step. in other words, I quite possibly will
switch to a LESSOPEN script. again, thanks for the comment!
cheers,
-blf-
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