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Instance Method Details

#lesspipe(*args) ⇒ Object

Create scrollable output via less!

This command runs ‘less` in a subprocess, and gives you the IO to its STDIN pipe so that you can communicate with it.

Example:

lesspipe do |less|
  50.times { less.puts "Hi mom!" }
end

The default less parameters are:

  • Allow colour

  • Don’t wrap lines longer than the screen

  • Quit immediately (without paging) if there’s less than one screen of text.

You can change these options by passing a hash to ‘lesspipe`, like so:

lesspipe(:wrap=>false) { |less| less.puts essay.to_s }

It accepts the following boolean options:

:color  => Allow ANSI colour codes?
:wrap   => Wrap long lines?
:always => Always page, even if there's less than one page of text?
:tail   => Seek to the end of the stream
:search => <regexp> searches the output using the "/" operator



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# File 'lib/upm/lesspipe.rb', line 29

def lesspipe(*args)
  if args.any? and args.last.is_a?(Hash)
    options = args.pop
  else
    options = {}
  end

  output = args.first if args.any?

  # Don't page, just output to STDOUT
  if options[:disabled]
    if output
      puts output
    else
      yield STDOUT
    end
    return
  end

  params = []
  params << "-R" unless options[:color]  == false
  params << "-S" unless options[:wrap]   == true
  params << "-F" unless options[:always] == true
  params << "-X"
  
  if regexp = options[:search]
    params << "+/#{regexp}"
  elsif options[:tail] == true
    params << "+\\>"
    $stderr.puts "Seeking to end of stream..."
  end

  IO.popen("less #{params * ' '}", "w") do |less|
    if output
      less.puts output
    else
      yield less
    end
  end

rescue Errno::EPIPE, Interrupt
  # less just quit -- eat the exception.
end