Color less instructions on OS X

color_less

1)  Run

brew install source-highlight

Presuming you are using brew, of course. 

2) Create the file /usr/local/share/source-highlight/src-hilite-lesspipe.sh
   with the following as its contents

#!/bin/bash

for source in "$@"; do
    case $source in
        *ChangeLog|*changelog) 
        source-highlight --failsafe -f esc --lang-def=changelog.lang --style-file=esc.style -i "$source" ;;
        *Makefile|*makefile) 
        source-highlight --failsafe -f esc --lang-def=makefile.lang --style-file=esc.style -i "$source" ;;
        *) source-highlight --failsafe --infer-lang -f esc --style-file=esc.style -i "$source" ;;
    esac
done

For some dumb reason, the above bash script doesn't get installed with source-highlight, 
so I had to extract the above from the tarball's installation files.  

3) chmod a+rx the above file.  

4)  Add the following lines to your ~/.profile (or equivalent)

export LESSOPEN="| /usr/local/share/source-highlight/src-hilite-lesspipe.sh %s"
export LESS=' -R '

I think this is it.

--sean

awesome, thanks for sharing