Re: a better lesskey helper

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Chuck Robey <chuckr_at_chuckr.org> writes:
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>> Nikolay Pavlov <qpadla_at_gmail.com> writes:
>>>> There is already such a file there. You just need to proper set an
>>>> environment: setenv LESSOPEN '|lesspipe.sh %s'
>>> zless will do that for you.
>> Now I'm getting a bit confused.  I know you from long before, and I
>> know you wouldn't make mistakes easily.  MY zless here doesn't decode
>> executables and libs, but there's no man page, and zless --help gives
>> only the standard less help info, so I don;'t know what zless does
>> that less didn't do before I changed out the lesspipe.sh on my local
>> system.
> 
> "that" refers to Nikolay's setenv trick.  If you actually define
> LESSOPEN in your environment, less will always use it, which may not be
> what you want; instead, you can use less when you want to see the actual
> file and zless when you want it "decoded".

Oh, I see.  Can I ask you to check, please, Dag, does your zless decode 
binaries?  Mine didn't, and the lesspipe.sh that's in the sources 
(unless another one's hidden somewhere) doesn't allow it either, it only 
gave decoding of tar archives and stuff compressed with bzip/gzip.  I'd 
really appreciate you doublechecking me on this.  If you say it works to 
do the objdump decoding, I will believe you and keep to myself on this. 
  Otherwise, I think this deserves going into our sources.

> DES