"less" annoyance, filters html source

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:47, William Lindley wrote:
> The "less" program that comes with Mandrake 9 how attempts to "render"
> html files instead of showing the source. It says you can append ':' to
> the filename to suppress the filter -- which works -- but does anyone have
> a clue how to override it permanently? The 'info' and 'man' pages don't
> give a hint.
>
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why not just alias it in /etc/bashrc (all users) or $HOME/.bashrc
specific users?

Craig