Re: Buglet in less?

[Morten Liebach <morten_(_at_)_hotpost_(_dot_)_dk>]

On 19, Oct, 2000 at 03:29:28PM -0400, Matthew Weigel wrote:
> Morten Liebach wrote:
> 
> > 	export LESS="-P%i %f line %lt of %L $"
> > 	export LESSOPEN="$HOME/bin/lessopen.sh %s"
> > 	export LESSCLOSE="$HOME/bin/lessclose.sh %s"
> > 	export LESSCHARSET="latin1"
> > 
> > and make the appropriate scripts executable, and test it.
> > 
> > lessopen.sh checks whether it's a compressed file, and acts according to
> > which compression [1] it is, works fine.
> > lessclose.sh is like this
> > 
> > 	#!/bin/sh
> > 	rm $2
> 
> It looks like lessclose.sh should be
> 
> 	#! /bin/sh
> 	rm $1

No difference. :-(
I did try that as the first thing though, before I posted.

<snippage>
 
> > Also, how do I get the same prompt ("-P%i %f line %lt of %L $") when
> > viewing manpages as when I use less?
> 
> Wouldn't that be from setting MANPAGER (looking at the docs, maybe just 
> PAGER) to '/usr/bin/less -P...'.

Of course, I were looking at /etc/man.conf and such, silly me.
It works beutifully!

> > [1]: Can't this be done based on the contents of the file, and not the
> >      suffix as I do now, e.g. `*.Z => uncompress' etc.?
> 
> file(1) might do that.  It might well simply do pattern matching, but I don't 
> think so.
> 
> You get to write a script that uses file(1) as an after-class exercise.

Kewl, I'll do, someday ... right now I'll get it working and I'm not
home over the weekend and ... have you ever heard the saying: ``The road
to hell is paved with bad excuses!'' (it might be a danish one).

>  Matthew Weigel
>  Research Systems Programmer

Sounds like an incredibly cool thing to do, any fun? :-)

Thanks, HAND
		Morten

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