On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:19:38PM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I now have two different working solutions. :-)
>
> Jack said: export LESSCHARSET=latin1
>
> Hal said: [export] LESSCHARDEF=.
>
> Big thanks to both of you.
>
> As I said, both work. I just don't know which one to choose. :-)
> Primarily because I'm not 100% sure of the usage/meaning of the two
> variables.
I had tried both, and the only reason I ran across that led me to use
the '.', is that it works with 'ls --color' piped thru less. As
someone else pointed out, there is other ways to solve this. But both
solve the <AD> thing. I think what these really do is just tell less
how to handle 'unprintable' characters like escape chars.
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