Bug 199604

Summary:	sys-apps/less-409 no syntax-highlighting
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Peter Weber <peterle>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Peter Weber 2007-11-18 23:34:37 UTC

Hi,
with former versions (like 406) of less source-code like C/C++ were printed on the screen with syntax-highlighting, but with the current release there is only blank text. In modern shell-enviroment syntax-hightlighting is very important and the man page didn't helped.
Would be nice to have it back.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-11-19 02:33:58 UTC

you have to set LESSCOLOR

Comment 2 Peter Weber 2007-11-19 20:34:17 UTC

Thanks!
Added:

~/.bash_profile

export LESSCOLOR=yes