Pipe less to Emacs

When viewing piped output to Less, sometimes I'd like to be able to 开发者_运维知识库view it in Emacs in order to get syntax highlighting and use emacs commands for searching, marking, copying, etc.

I see that Less has a v command that can be used to open the currently viewed file in $EDITOR. Unfortunately this doesn't work when viewing piped input.

Also, I don't know how to get Emacs to display stdin as a read-only document.

So, is it possible to set up Less with something like v but that pumps the current buffer into Emacs as a read-only file?

Thanks.

If you scroll down in http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnuClient, you'll come to a section titled "Piping data to an Emacs buffer" which may be relevant. Or you can hack up a solution involving emacsclient and temporary files. (link dead).

I found another variant while looking for a duplicate of the dead link: Piping to an emacs buffer with emacsclient which points at code stored on github.

I've formalized the solution here: github e-sink