Stroller writes:
> I want to view the html source of a webpage.
>
> When I run `less file.html` the rendered webpage is shown, not the
> source. It is as if lynx had been invoked, rather than less.
>
> `more file.html` and `most file.html` both work fine, but this is
> annoying - it takes an effort to prevent my fingers from typing `less`.
>
> How do I disable less from parsing html source, please?
You can set LESSIGNORE='*.htm*'. This environment variable is used by the
lesspipe command, which is invoked by less and filters the input file
before giving it to less itself.
The is, if LESSOPEN='|lesspipe %s', which is set for me as such
in /etc/env.d/70less.
Wonko
