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[Hubert Mantel <mantel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 29, Petr Uzel wrote:

> > In a different life I once worked at a place where they had implemented a 
> > fairly useful mechanism into their less preprocessor.  It was active by 
> > default (interpreting all kinds of formats, much more than us), but you 
> > could deactivate it very easily by appending a ':' to the filename.  So
> >   # less paper.pdf
> > would show a formated text-only output of the PDF contents, whereas
> >   # less paper.pdf:
> > would show the binary blob as is.
> >
> > That was extremely convenient.  Just another data point.
>
> I think this is exactly what lesspipe does. So I guess it is just '+1'
> for lesspipe integration :)

Don't we already have that since years? Just compare

less some.rpm
less <some.rpm

It's also just one single additional keystroke.

> Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer

    Hubert Mantel
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