From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GnPsj-0004cF-Nh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:29:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAO1QL4C020303; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:26:21 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAO1Mr5w005805 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:22:54 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A384B646F0 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:22:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.441 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.441 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.023, BAYES_00=-2.599, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.135] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zRx-lS80jG2M for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:22:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony11.iinet.net.au (customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony11.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.151]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1631864756 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 203-59-11-141.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.11.141]) by customer-domains.icp-qv1-irony11.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 24 Nov 2006 09:22:37 +0800 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgoXALvYZUXLOwuNVWdsb2JhbACBU4RBhjMBKw X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,454,1157299200"; d="scan'208"; a="50027447:sNHT1274035878" Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70ADB712D14 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:22:36 +0800 (WST) Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YQuBEP4m7TwC for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:22:25 +0800 (WST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41B6712D11 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:22:24 +0800 (WST) Subject: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user List Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:22:24 +0800 Message-Id: <1164331344.2379.19.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8b797a43-1564-45cf-9409-82576697c4a4 X-Archives-Hash: 1d844f8b7b6f1243179642c371242599 I recently had cause to use "less" from a real console, not an xterm and found that it really does colourise text. It has never done this in an xterm - how do I turn it on? "man" isnt being very helpful here :( BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list