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bug #57824: Documentation & repo files don't say how to set colors

Submitter:  einpoklum
Submitted:  Sat 15 Feb 2020 06:26:08 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Sat 15 Feb 2020 06:26:08 PM UTC, original submission:  

I am an end-user of libsource-highlight: My Linux distribution has a less package; the less package uses lesspipe as its LESSOPEN variable; and lesspipe relies on libsource-highlight to do syntax highlighting, apparently.

Now, suppose that I want to change the highlight colors for some type of source file, or globally, for some reason. Since the two packages I mentioned earlier just relegate this task to libsource-highlight - I look to its documentation and its installed files to understand how to do so. And - I'm failing...

The documentation does mention colors, here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/source-highlight.html#Using-source_002dhighlight-with-less

and here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/source-highlight.html#ANSI-color-escape-sequences

I can even locate the esc.style and esc256.style files in /usr/share/source-highlight. But - nothing tells me how I can actually apply one or the other; nor how to override them partially or wholly as a non-root user.

The documentation mentions the switch `--style-file`; but - a switch to what? Neither less nor lesspipe seem to accept that as a command-line argument. And nothing in the documentation distinguishes system-general and user-specific file locations.

The INSTALL and README files are no help either.

einpoklum

 

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