Could we have 'less' in the new Code-OSS-powered SAP Business Application Studio?

[laszlo_kajan2]

After the roll-out of the new Code-OSS-powered SAP Business Application Studio (see liat.borenshtein's post), 'less' seems to be missing from the terminal:

Is there a way to get it back?

[YuvalA · Accepted solution]

we are on it, will be soon available.

Thanks, Yuval

[laszlo_kajan2]

Perhaps not the simplest, but the following works:

1. Compile 'less' statically on a suitable machine, e.g. Debian:
   1. apt-get build-dep less
   2. apt-get source less
   3. cd <dir-with-less-sources>
   4. ./configure LDFLAGS="-static"
   5. make
2. Copy the resulting less* executables to your Business Application Studio (BAS) dev space, e.g. by dragging the files to the 'Explorer' panel of the BAS.
3. Copy less* to ~/bin, and make the files executable: mkdir -p ~/bin && cd ~/bin && chmod +x less*
4. Add the following to ~/.bashrc, as the 'bash' terminal seems to be invoked as a non-login shell, therefore skipping ~/.profile:
   # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
   if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
   PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
   fi
   export GIT_PAGER="$HOME/bin/less"