lless
is the colorizing of less
. It works similar to less
but displays content with syntax highlighting.
Supported Languages
- JavaScript
- Java
- Ruby
- Python
- Go
- C
- JSON
Installation
OSX
$ brew install lless
Standalone
lless
can be easily installed as an executable.
Download the latest compiled binaries and put it in your executable path.
From source
Prerequisites:
$ go get -u github.com/jingweno/lless
Usage
$ lless FILE
$ lless --bg=dark FILE ... # dark background
$ lless # read from standard input
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jingweno/lless/master/main.go | lless
It's recommended to alias lless
to less
:
alias less=lless
You can always invoke less
after aliasing lless
by typing \less
(in Bash).
License
MIT
Acknowledgements
This project was based off jingweno's ccat
Credits
Thanks to Sourcegraph who built this awesome syntax-highlighting package.