"less" annoyance, filters html source

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Author: Victor Odhner
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Subject: "less" annoyance, filters html source
Dennis Kibbe wrote:
> When you install Debian 3.0 there is a question that
> asks if you want to associate "less" with MIME types.
> This sounds like what Mandrake is doing automatically.


I'd love to have a version of "less" that understands
MIME types and renders them appropriately.
I just wouldn't want it to be called "less" !

Why would they CHANGE the meaning of a popular
command?

I even dislike it when they replace "vi" with "vim"
and leave some of the new behaviors turned on by default.

Vic

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