Pimp my LESS

Ever found yourself browsing through some old legacy sources in some forsaken remote server with less? well, here’s a small tip you can use to make the experience not so bad. make less do more for you :)

first, make sure you have pygments installed:

user@pc:~$ sudo apt-get install python-pygments

then, just dump a small script somewhere on your path (I use ~/bin/lezz):

#! /bin/sh
[ $# -ge 2 -a -f "$2" ] && input="$2" || input=""
pygmentize -l $1 -f terminal256 -O full,style=monokai $input | less -R

 

and that’s it. now you can use it like:

lezz [lang] [file]

# or recieve from stdin
cat [file] | lezz [lang]

e.g.

user@pc:~$ lezz bash `which lezz`
user@pc:~$ cat `which lezz` | lezz sh

P.S.

if you don’t like the style, change it. instead of monokai you can use any style under:

user@pc:~$ pygmentize -L style

Blog.init();

Ok, first post. WOOHOOO! Just finished setting up everything: syntax highlighting & markdown. a little example (taken from here which I pimped up a bit) shows it:

Syntax highlighting is fun!

HTML

    <h1>HTML code</h1>
    <div class="some">This is an example</div>

Python

    def func():
      for i in [1, 2, 3]:
        print "%s" % i

Scala

    def fib(a: Int, b: Int): Stream[Int] = a #:: fib(b,a+b)
    fib(1,1).filter(_ % 2 == 0).take(10).toList

Java (deprecated)

    class HelloWorldApp {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Print the string to the console.
      }
    }

highlighting is done with highlight.js & markdown with pagedown extra

So, I’ll probably babble here about all kind of things I find interesting. Also, as the name says, I’m open to suggestions (So my wife just came up with a cool name… IM KEEPING IT!). apparently, coming up with a name for your blog, is quite hard…

anyway, hope to have some fun. see ya’ :)