[clug] Coloured manpages

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 18 February 2014 13:04, Hal Ashburner <hal at ashburner.info> wrote:
> Tweak the colour escapes to be red or something less subtle to be sure and
> file a bug! :-)

I tried a variety of different colour codes and spent a while trying
variations of the command, less commands, internet searches, etc.
before realising that I was spending way too much time on one little
detail on a machine I was only using whilst visiting my parent's place
for Christmas :p

(Besides, woman-mode in Emacs is able to colour man pages for me, and
I often wanted the man page whilst coding something in Emacs
anyway...)

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> 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
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