On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:26:31 -0500 Dan Farrell wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:07:02 +0200 > Tony Stohne wrote: > > Mick said the following on 2007-04-05 19:07: > > | ... > > | Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output. Passing --color=y > > to either > > | tells me things like: > > | ============================== > > | There is no color=y option ("less --help" for help) > > | ============================== > > | > > | I also tried --color but it's all still shown in black & white. > > | How > > do you > > | pipe a file and get it to show in color? Am I missing something > > | in my .bashrc or elsewhere? > > > > > > That should do the trick :) > > > > //Regards Tony > > > > PS. Have a nice Easter everyone! > Hey tony, maybe this is beyond your control, or maybe you don't care, > and if not i respect your autonomy in such matters, but your reply > block punctuation character '|' defeats the very helpful colorization > of my and many other browsers that use the usual '>' character to > identify reply text. It makes your letters nearly unreadable. > respects, - dan I use Sylpheed Claws as you do and colours work fine here. You can define '|' as quotation character in Configuration --> Preferences --> Compose --> Quoting. Just set ">|" as quotation characters and both '>' and '|' will be recognised and properly colourised. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein)