Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:02:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:

> This is all very well and nice - but we'd also need a 'less' that supports
> color sequences, otherwise the color coding would be a waste for any grep
> output that is more than a screenful.

???  How is this different from piping the output of `ls' through Less?

In other words, when stdout is redirected to a disk file, the DJGPP 
implementation of the color support should turn off its special color 
code and use stdio functions instead.  That's what the ported `ls' does.

> Would be nice if the next diff also has color coding (like the new diff
> mode in emacs 21)

If you use Emacs, why do you need Diff (or Grep, for that matter) to 
produce colors?  Emacs does it better anyway.