[wplug] colored manpages via less

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Tue Jul 3 07:24:05 EDT 2007


Zach wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:
>> If you use "less" as the default pager for man, these settings in your
>> shell profile will display your manpages as angry fruit salad:
> 
> Will this work for 'more' ?

No.  The page describes variables that change the behavior of 'less', 
not the output of 'man'.  There is, however, another page the author 
refers to, which talks about setting up specific terminfo configurations 
for one alias:

http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/569-colored-manpages.html

While this won't make it exactly like the OP's URL, it sort of works, 
for some markup.
-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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