In all the tools to get colors with less command: -R, Pygments, GNU Source-highlight, vless, ... ccze make me sastified with below command:
ccze -A < /path/to/log/file | less -R
but Shift+g doesn't work as expected:
Did I miss something?
I see similar behavior as you describe when I try this on /var/log/syslog which is 2.1MB in size and around 22500 lines long. Suspecting that ccze was partly to blame for it, I ran:
time ccze -A /var/log/syslog > foo
Which showed that ccze takes around 55 seconds on my 1.2GHz machine to generate the colorized output. I expect this is what makes less hang, less cannot go to the end of the output before ccze has finished generating it, so less seems to hang.
Alternatives to make this work better:
grep, sed etc. and then pipe into ccze.less on that.
ccze -A LOG > SOME_FILE. Perhaps executed in a cron job.
vim for log viewing, it has good syntax highlighting. Just tested it on a 7 MB log file with no noticable lag.
:se ft=sql doesn't make me happy when viewing /var/log/mysqld.log.
Both Meta-> and Meta-< work perfectly fine for me. I'm used to them because they do the same in emacs
