Imported Debian patch 1.3.12-1

[gzip] / zless.1

diff --git a/zless.1 b/zless.1
index d4acd2d05cb3c51a9b91505eab6d236b023d3a18..ca02423126157d32b6657a56c29575b9fcce889b 100644 (file)
--- a/zless.1
+++ b/zless.1
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ zless \- file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text
 .I  Zless
 is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files
 one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal.  It is the equivalent of
-setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to "|gzip -cdfq -- %s",
+setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to '|gzip -cdfq -- %s',
+and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to
+"'<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#\\$%=~'",
 and then running
 .IR less .
 However, enough people seem to think that having the
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ available is important to be worth providing it.
 
 Note that zless does not work with files piped to it on stdin, it only works
 with files specified as arguments.  If you really want to use less in a pipe,
-then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of zless.
+then do the uncompress explicitly and pipe to less instead of using zless.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 zmore(1), less(1)
 .SH "BUGS"