From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: GNU_grep-2.5c_beta
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:47:15 +0100
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> > What I'm suggesting is that an option is added to less or
> > to its DJGPP port) that will support and translate ANSI color sequences.
>
> Why an option?  Why shouldn't Less do that by default?
You could have a script that includes such escape sequences as literals
to be used in output - you wouldn't want them to be translated in that case.
Admittedly, an option could instead be added to disable such translation for
cases like that.