[clug] Coloured manpages

[Hal Ashburner]

Tweak the colour escapes to be red or something less subtle to be sure and
file a bug! :-)


On 18 February 2014 12:30, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
<ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 18 February 2014 12:04, Hal Ashburner <hal at ashburner.info> wrote:
> > Getting coloured output from manpages brought me some joy today!
> Hopefully
> > someone or other of you manages a smile. This is the kind of thing that
> > often get past me for years(!)
> >
> > http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/less-colors-for-man-pages/
> >
> > which can be wrapped like so:
> >
> > man() {
> >     env \
> >         LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(printf "\e[1;31m") \
> >         LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(printf "\e[1;38;5;74m") \
> >         LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(printf "\e[0m") \
> >         LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(printf "\e[0m") \
> >         LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf "\e[1;38;5;246m") \
> >         LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(printf "\e[0m") \
> >         LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(printf "\e[04;38;5;146m") \
> >             man "$@"
> > }
> >
> > if that floats your boat.
>
> I found this and tried using it on a freshly installed Fedora 20 using
> Gnome 3, and for some reason the Gnome terminal wouldn't display them
> (except for possibly the bottom bar being a different colour).  It
> worked in xterm though...
>
> So I went back to just using most for my pager for man, even though it
> has some weird aspects to it (when searching, a coloured word counts
> as two search results :s).
>
> >
> > (also in my shellrc are settings for ls & grep which along with tweaks to
> > .hgrc and compiling with clang make me happy)
> >
> > # Enable directory colours
> > [[ $OSTYPE == "linux" ]] && eval `dircolors`
> > [[ $OSTYPE == "linux" ]] && alias ls="ls --color=auto -F"
> > alias grep="grep --color=auto"
> >
> > Hope you're having fun.
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>
>
> --
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
> http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
>