Add a little color to your life and be happy.
Retain grep highlighting when piping through less:
grep --color=always | less -R
Colorize svn status output: http://colorsvn.tigris.org
svn status | colorsvn
Colorize your diffs: http://colordiff.org
diff | colordiff
Colorize your svn diffs:
svn diff | colordiff | less -R