Added note on use of 'less -R' for colorized output.

2016-03-27 15:22:52 -04:00
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--- a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst
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@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ Basic usage
 The ``spack`` command has many *subcommands*.  You'll only need a
 small subset of them for typical usage.

+Note that Spack colorizes output.  ``less -R`` should be used with
+Spack to maintian this colorization.  Eg::
+
+    spack find | less -R
+
+It is recommend that the following be put in your ``.bashrc`` file::
+
+    alias less='less -R'
+

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