Enabling syntax highlight on a Linux pager.

[notageek]

Alright, have you ever wished syntax highlighting on a Linux pager and not forced to use an editor, just so that you can see colors in your code?

I have. There is a package available in another distro called 'source-highlight' which lets you do that along with

[ichbinsisyphos]

Good to know, but why use a "pager" anyway? No X?

[notageek]

Because it's quicker to use a pager than anything within X.
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What looks like a cat, flies like a bat, brays like a donkey, and plays like a monkey?

[pigeon768]

You might try using dev-util/source-highlight, which is in portage, and its src-hilite-lesspipe.sh script.
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My political bias.

[Dr.Willy]

[notageek]

Cool, those work!
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What looks like a cat, flies like a bat, brays like a donkey, and plays like a monkey?

[Dr.Willy]

Of course they do

[notageek]

I meant thank you.
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What looks like a cat, flies like a bat, brays like a donkey, and plays like a monkey?

[smartass]

[notageek]

Okay, the reason I was looking to enable this on "less" is I wanted to avoid using vim or any of its derivatives. Although I used vim to code.
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What looks like a cat, flies like a bat, brays like a donkey, and plays like a monkey?