Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· sheerun

Enable syntax highlight in less!

Install source-highlight package:

brew install source-highlight

And add following to your shell startup file:

export LESSOPEN="| src-hilite-lesspipe.sh %s"
export LESS=" -R "

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Thanks, very nice tip! but Less should be called with "-R" option to enable the color.

over 1 year ago ·

@0xnan Thank you for noticing this :) I've updated the protip.

over 1 year ago ·