[wplug] colored manpages via less

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Tue Jul 3 07:30:07 EDT 2007


Eric Cooper wrote:
>     export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\e[01;31m'
>     export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[01;31m'
>     export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m'
>     export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[01;44;33m'
>     export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m'
>     export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[01;32m'
>     export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m'

If you don't feel like mucking around with your rc files, or you aren't 
using a bourne-based shell, you can test drive this with:

env LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\e[01;31m' LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[01;31m' \
     LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m' LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[01;44;33m' \
     LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m' LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[01;32m' \
     LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m' PAGER=less man perl

(Change the last word 'perl' to whatever man page you'd like to see.)


-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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