Merge pull request #476 from mimoralea/mimoralea-pretty-cat-plugin

Replace cat with pigmentize to add syntax highlighting if possible defaulting back to cat

plugins/available/less-pretty-cat.plugin.bash

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+cite about-plugin                                                                                        
+about-plugin 'pygmentize instead of cat to terminal if possible'                                         
+
+if [ -z $(which pygmentize) ]
+then
+    echo "Pygments is required to use this plugin"
+    echo "Install it by doing 'pip install Pygments' as the superuser"
+fi
+
+# get the full paths to binaries
+CAT_BIN=$(which cat)
+LESS_BIN=$(which less)
+
+# pigmentize cat and less outputs
+cat()
+{
+    about 'runs either pygmentize or cat on each file passed in'
+    param '*: files to concatenate (as normally passed to cat)'
+    example 'cat mysite/manage.py dir/text-file.txt'
+    for var;
+    do
+        pygmentize "$var" 2>/dev/null || "$CAT_BIN" "$var";
+    done
+}
+
+less()
+{
+    about 'it pigments the file passed in and passes it to less for pagination'
+    param '$1: the file to paginate with less'
+    example 'less mysite/manage.py'
+    pygmentize "$*" | "$LESS_BIN" -R
+}