Can less (or similar) do syntax highlighting

[Owen Townend]

2009/3/20 John Hubbard <ender8282 at yahoo.com>:
> It looks like a version might have been released Dec '08 that does.
> Using the -r or -R options doesn't get me syntax highlighting.  So it
> looks like i don't have the newest version.  Is there another similar
> program that would give me syntax highlighting similar to what I see
> with vi?

Sure, have a look into using vim, it has a wrapper script to
emulate less but still use highlighting etc:

$ dpkg -L vim-runtime|grep less
/usr/share/vim/vim71/macros/less.sh
/usr/share/vim/vim71/macros/less.vim

cheers,
Owen.