.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