color display with man pages

[Joachim Backes]

On 07/22/2014 09:10 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi Amila,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:42:23PM +0530, Amila Perera wrote:
>> man()
>> {
>> env LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m' \
>> LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;34m' \
>> LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m' \
>> LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m' \
>> LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;33;40m' \
>> LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m' \
>> LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;04;35m' \
>> man "$@"
>> }
> 
> I tried with bash, it seems to work ... somewhat.  I see a yellow status
> at the bottom, but otherwise I see a regular man page.  When I `type
> man' after defining your function, I get a few colours among the variable
> definitions (blue, red, and underlined).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 

Getting same here.

But I have to agree Amila, that (at least) on Ubuntu 12.04 or on on
Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon) I get some more colors.


Kind regards

Joachim Backes
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