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[John]

Colin Watson wrote:


>>
>>So what's different in Ubuntu that it doesn't allow me to do what I've
>>been doing for years on other distros?
> 
> 
> It's in your .bashrc, but commented out by default:
> 
>   # make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
>   #[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(lesspipe)"
> 


I reckon it's a fair bet that not one in ten reads those comments _and_ 
understands them:-)


If it's good, implement it as default behaviour.