Hi, wirelessduck--- via Dng writes:
>> On 27 Nov 2021, at 14:24, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-h...@member.fsf.org> wrote: >> >> Looking at the lesspipe manual page[1] (don't have less installed ;-), >> it seems that it doesn't support on-the-fly encoding switching but as >> far as dealing with compressed files, I guess there is no or not much >> difference. >> >> [1]: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/less/lesspipe.1.en.html > > Ahh ok. I’ve never had to deal with alternate encodings. If I ever > needed that I would probably just alias less to lv, assuming the UI is > similar enough. Muscle memory is hard to overcome sometimes. ACK. First thing I do on Alpine and RPM distros is add an alias for pager to my ~/.profile. BTW, for those interested in or already using lv, you may want to add a .lv file with -c to make it work better with ANSI escape codes (lest they are mistaken for part of text in some encoding). Hope this helps. -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
