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bug#41047: [PATCH] gnu: Add lesspipe
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#41047: [PATCH] gnu: Add lesspipe |
Date: |
Mon, 04 May 2020 22:45:57 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Michael Rohleder <address@hidden> skribis:
> I'm not very creative on creating descriptions. Please feel free to
> change it. ;)
Heheh.
> From 9ee7d976ffa6cd6d8375fac2df0f50940f9d4877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michael Rohleder <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 12:31:43 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add lesspipe
>
> * gnu/packages/less.scm (lesspipe): New variable.
Applied with the following changes. Note that the license is GPLv2+
because there’s nothing stating “version 2 only”.
Thanks!
Ludo’.
diff --git a/gnu/packages/less.scm b/gnu/packages/less.scm
index 92e20a3705..76a4d42dfd 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/less.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/less.scm
@@ -84,17 +84,11 @@ text editors.")
(native-inputs `(("perl" ,perl)))
(home-page "https://github.com/wofr06/lesspipe")
(synopsis "Input filter for less")
- (description "To browse files under UNIX the excellent viewer less
-can be used. By setting the environment variable LESSOPEN, less can be
-enhanced by external filters to become even more powerful. Most Linux
-distributions come already with a \"lesspipe.sh\" that covers the most
-common situations.
-The input filter for less described here is called
-\"lesspipe.sh\". It is able to process a wide variety of file
-formats. It enables users to deeply inspect archives and to display
-the contents of files in archives without having to unpack them
-before. That means file contents can be properly interpreted even if
-the files are compressed and contained in a hierarchy of
-archives (often found in RPM or DEB archives containing source
-tarballs). The filter is easily extensible for new formats.")
- (license gpl2)))
+ (description "To browse files, the excellent viewer @code{less} can be
+used. By setting the environment variable @code{LESSOPEN}, less can be
+enhanced by external filters to become more powerful. The input filter for
+less described here is called @code{lesspipe.sh}. It is able to process a
+wide variety of file formats. It enables users to inspect archives and
+display their contents without having to unpack them before. The filter is
+easily extensible for new formats.")
+ (license gpl2+)))