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lesspipe - display more with less
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2020-06-01 · latest 2026-01-02
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…that you can enable syntax highlighting/file rendering(like pdf, markdown) in less with lesspipe https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe . It is exteremely useful and improves readability a lot. What's nice is that this functionality is…
comment by alkh · 2026-01-02 · in Assorted less(1) tips -
…isn't a pager but a preprocessor for less that does syntax highlighting among other things. https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
comment by soraminazuki · 2025-10-08 · in Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting -
Perhaps you can use lesspipe with sed/awk? https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
comment by manaskarekar · 2024-04-29 · in Pdf.tocgen -
less is useful for this if you have the lesspipe [0] preprocessor installed 0: https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
comment by pimlottc · 2024-02-21 · in Useful Uses of cat -
…Brew etc holds newer versions - but this particular issue probably has to do with missing lesspipe: https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe#42-list-of-preprocessed-f...
comment by e12e · 2023-07-20 · in Show HN: PDF Differ -
On some systems, less can automatically detect gzip compression via lesspipe: https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe
comment by rzzzt · 2020-06-01 · in Debian Handbook for Debian 10 Buster