Overview

Consider swapping out the standard “less” pager for one that has syntax highlighting.

Here’s one way to achieve this:

cless, which builds on c.

Back in 2012, Paul Irish tweeted a neat way to make “cat” colorized.

If you do this, and you like this, you can get a colorized less with no more work than a two line shell function.

If you’re looking for another way to get syntax highlighting with less, there’s something called lesspipe, but I haven’t looked into it yet.

So far I’m happy with cless.

Resources

• A shell alias for colorized cat
• Paul Irish’s original “c” tweet
• A shell function for colorized less