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How to enable syntax highlighting in less

Publicat la 3 December 2013 No comments

I wanted to have syntax highlighting for a php file I was debugging. Source-highlight given a source file, produces a document with syntax highlighting.

These are the output formats already supported:

  • HTML
  • XHTML
  • LATEX
  • MediaWiki (new)
  • ODF (new)
  • TEXINFO
  • ANSI color escape sequences (you can use this feature with less)
  • DocBook

These are the input languages (or input formats) already supported (in alphabetical order):

  • Ada
  • Asm
  • Applescript
  • Awk
  • Autoconf files
  • Bat
  • Bib
  • Bison
  • C/C++
  • C#
  • CakePhp templates
  • Clipper
  • Cobol
  • Configuration files (generic)
  • Caml
  • Changelog
  • Css
  • D
  • Diff
  • Emacs Lisp
  • Erlang
  • errors (compiler output)
  • Flex
  • Fortran
  • GLSL
  • Haskell
  • Haskell literate programming
  • Haxe
  • Html
  • ini files
  • IsLisp (new)
  • Java
  • Javalog
  • Javascript
  • KDE desktop files
  • Latex
  • Ldap files
  • Lilypond (new)
  • Lisp
  • Logtalk
  • Log files
  • lsm files (Linux Software Map)
  • Lua
  • Makefile
  • Manifest
  • M4
  • ML
  • Opa
  • Oz
  • Pascal
  • Perl
  • pkg-config files
  • PHP
  • Po
  • Postscript
  • Prolog
  • Properties files
  • Protobuf (Google's Protocol Buffers)
  • Python
  • R statistics programming language (new)
  • RPM Spec files
  • Ruby
  • Scala
  • Scheme
  • Shell
  • S-Lang
  • Sql
  • T/Foswiki TML markup
  • Tcl
  • Texinfo
  • UPC (unified parallel C)
  • Vala
  • VBscript
  • XML
  • XOrg conf files

Exactly what I needed!

[codesyntax lang="bash"]

apt-get install source-highlight
echo "" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export LESSOPEN=\"| /usr/share/source-highlight/src-hilite-lesspipe.sh %s\"" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export LESS=' -R '" >> ~/.bashrc

[/codesyntax]

Note: Be sure this line isn't present in your .bashrc because it will interfere with source-highlight:
[codesyntax lang="bash"]

 [ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(lesspipe)"

[/codesyntax]

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