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less

Less is a free, open-source file pager.

Detected by less, lesskey | macOS, Linux, Windows |www.greenwoodsoftware.com

Sync it less.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

less in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

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#env

LESS = -R --mouse --incsearch --status-column

LESSOPEN = |/opt/homebrew/bin/lesspipe.sh %smachine-local

LESSCLOSE = /opt/homebrew/bin/lessclose.sh %s %smachine-local

LESSCHARSET = utf-8

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

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#env

LESS = -R --mouse

LESSOPEN = |C:\Program Files\lesspipe\lesspipe.bat %smachine-local

LESSCLOSE = C:\Program Files\lesspipe\lessclose.bat %s %smachine-local

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

· ~/.lesshst Exclude

· ~/.local/state/lesshst Exclude

· ~/.less Exclude

LESSOPENLESSCLOSE

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/less.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "less"

name = "less"

homepage = "https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/"

description = "Less is a free, open-source file pager."

detect = ["less", "lesskey"]

# less(1), KEY BINDINGS: "If the environment variable LESSKEYIN is set, less

# uses that as the name of the lesskey source file. Otherwise, less looks in a

# standard place for the lesskey source file: On Unix systems, less looks for a

# lesskey file called "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lesskey" or "$HOME/.config/lesskey" or

# "$HOME/.lesskey". On MS-DOS and Windows systems, less looks for a lesskey

# file called "$HOME/_lesskey"". Since less 582 the source file is read

# directly and the lesskey program is no longer needed.

# "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lesskey" and "$HOME/.config/lesskey" are the same file

# under two names — the variable and its default — which is [configHome]. The

# other two are hard-coded in the home directory and stay as they are: the

# Windows spelling sits in the user profile root, which resolves to the same

# directory as "~", so it is written "~/_lesskey" rather than

# "%USERPROFILE%/_lesskey".

paths = ["~/.lesskey", "[configHome]/lesskey", "~/_lesskey"]

# The search history less writes for itself (LESSHISTFILE, less(1) ENVIRONMENT

# VARIABLES: "$XDG_STATE_HOME/lesshst" or "$HOME/.local/state/lesshst" or

# "$XDG_DATA_HOME/lesshst" or "$HOME/.lesshst"), plus "~/.less", the compiled

# binary lesskey file older versions used and current ones ignore when the

# source file exists.

exclude = ["~/.lesshst", "~/.local/state/lesshst", "~/.less"]

# A lesskey file is key bindings and a #env section. Neither is a credential.

secret = []

# Parsed at startup by a pager that then exits; rewriting it between runs is

# harmless.

side_effect = false

# less(1) LESS ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: the "#env" section assigns environment

# variables visible only to less. LESSOPEN and LESSCLOSE name an input

# preprocessor by absolute path — /usr/bin/lesspipe on Debian, a Homebrew

# prefix on macOS — so the line points at a program installed on this one

# machine. Every spelling is listed, because less reads whichever file it

# finds first and a rule naming only one does not run for a user whose file is

# one of the others. Where lesspipe lands is decided by the kind of machine

# rather than by this one, so the value holds for every box of the same OS and

# architecture and travels with that class.

[[machine_lines]]

file = ["~/.lesskey", "[configHome]/lesskey", "~/_lesskey"]

match = { prefix = ["LESSOPEN", "LESSCLOSE"] }

scope = "platform"

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/less. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page. None of them splits LESSOPEN and LESSCLOSE for you — that part is Otty’s own sync, or a template you write by hand.