color display with man pages

Corinna Vinschen fedora at cygwin.de
Tue Jul 22 09:22:12 UTC 2014


On Jul 22 14:43, Amila Perera wrote:
> Thanks a lot Corinna.
> 
> The following setting did the trick for me.
> Now the output on Ubuntu & Fedora looks the same.
> 
> Thank you once again.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen <fedora at cygwin.de> wrote:
> 
> > Try this additionally to setting the LESS_TERMCAP_xx vars:
> >
> >   export GROFF_NO_SGR=yes

Btw., apart from using less (or most), another neat way to read colored
man pages is to use a browser:

  $ man -Hlynx less


Corinna


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