Re:My intro to LESS - If you're not using it, you should be.
by shabble on Monday September 03, 2012 @12:09AM
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Thanks, I should probably have actually mentioned what it does initially :)
Couple of minor points:
-F is actually 'quit immediately if the input is less than 1 screen-worth of text'. It means you can just pipe any old thing into it, and if it's only a couple of lines, you don't have to quit manually.
-e/-E is the 'quit when reaching input EOF', with a nice little trick that -e only quits the second time you reach EOF, so you can go right to the end of the file, and to quit just hit space or whatever to seek further.
The other thing is:
-R : Like -r, but only ANSI "color" escape sequences are
output in "raw" form. Unlike -r, the screen
appearance is maintained correctly in most cases.
whereas you're describing -r. I'd definitely recommend big-R if you don't enjoy periodic symboljunk terminal confusion.
Couple of minor points:
-F is actually 'quit immediately if the input is less than 1 screen-worth of text'. It means you can just pipe any old thing into it, and if it's only a couple of lines, you don't have to quit manually.
-e/-E is the 'quit when reaching input EOF', with a nice little trick that -e only quits the second time you reach EOF, so you can go right to the end of the file, and to quit just hit space or whatever to seek further.
The other thing is:
whereas you're describing -r. I'd definitely recommend big-R if you don't enjoy periodic symboljunk terminal confusion.