[clug] Coloured manpages

Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 19:31:12 MST 2014


On 18/02/14 12:30, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> On 18 February 2014 12:04, Hal Ashburner <hal at ashburner.info> wrote:
>> Getting coloured output from manpages brought me some joy today! 

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> 
> 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). 

Perhaps this will help:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Invalid_and_ambiguous_sequences_in_use

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Kind regards


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