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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] less file.html
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On 12 May 2012, at 22:49, Alex Schuster wrote:
> =85=20
>> I want to view the html source of a webpage.
>>=20
>> 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.=20
>> ...
>> How do I disable less from parsing html source, please?
>=20
> You can set LESSIGNORE=3D'*.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.

Contrary to my previous email, sent in error, that does NOT work.

Did you check this yourself?

$ LESSOPEN=3D"" less file.html                # works fine
$ LESSIGNORE=3D'*.htm*' less file.html        #does not

I've also tried `export LESSIGNORE=3D'*.htm*'` (for what difference that =
makes?) and tried running the `less` command on a separate line.

What version of less are you using, please? I have =3Dsys-apps/less-444 =
installed here.

As per my previous reply to Canek's suggestion, I now have a working =
solution. LESSOPEN is the keyword that works for me, here. So I only =
make this reply to you now for completeness, as part of the eternal =
quest for deeper understanding and for the benefit of those searching in =
the future. LESSIGNORE seems even more poorly documented than LESSOPEN - =
I'm afraid I never think to use `info`, only `man` in the first =
instance.

Stroller.