JP Mens on Nostr: Sometimes I check a program's man page to see if there's support for doing X, and ...
Sometimes I check a program's man page to see if there's support for doing X, and then I stumble across being able to do Y, something I've wanted for ages.
Today, in `man ag':
ag --pager 'less -R' ...
which keeps coloring, whereas
ag ... | less
obviously doesn't.
https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcherPublished at
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