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authorFrancisco de ZuvirĂ­a <franciscodezuviria@gmail.com>2019-04-22 16:06:47 -0300
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colorize: add ability to colorize multiple files into less (#7662)
cless is an alias for a colorized less wrappper: colorize_via_pygmentize_less. Note that cless opens many files as independent files, navigatable with `:n` and `:p`.
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With this plugin you can syntax-highlight file contents of over 300 supported languages and other text formats.
+Colorize will highlight the content based on the filename extension. If it can't find a syntax-highlighting
+method for a given extension, it will try to find one by looking at the file contents. If no highlight method
+is found it will just cat the file normally, without syntax highlighting.
+
To use it, add colorize to the plugins array of your zshrc file:
```
plugins=(... colorize)
@@ -9,9 +13,16 @@ plugins=(... colorize)
## Usage
-* `ccat <file> [files]`: colorize the contents of the file (or files, if more than one are provided). If no arguments are passed it will colorize the standard input or stdin.
+* `ccat <file> [files]`: colorize the contents of the file (or files, if more than one are provided).
+ If no arguments are passed it will colorize the standard input or stdin.
+
+* `cless <file> [files]`: colorize the contents of the file (or files, if more than one are provided) and
+ open less. If no arguments are passed it will colorize the standard input or stdin.
-Colorize will highlight the content based on the filename extension. If it can't find a syntax-highlighting method for a given extension, it will try to find one by looking at the file contents. If no highlight method is found it will just cat the file normally, without syntax highlighting.
+Note that `cless` will behave as less when provided more than one file: you have to navigate files with
+the commands `:n` for next and `:p` for previous. The downside is that less options are not supported.
+But you can circumvent this by either using the LESS environment variable, or by running `ccat file1 file2|less --opts`.
+In the latter form, the file contents will be concatenated and presented by less as a single file.
## Requirements