color display with man pages

[Jatin K]

On Tuesday 22 July 2014 12:14 PM, Amila Perera wrote:
> Thank you Jatin.
>
> I knew 'most' would work.
> It is able to display colours as well.
>
> But I am used to 'less' and its key bindings.
>
> I am quite puzzled as why the termcap settings for less don't work in 
> Fedora20.
>
> Do you have any explanations??
>
> Just a few hours ago I installed CentOS 7 and it worked fine there too 
> with KDE.
> Do you know any sort of workaround to this problem??
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Jatin K <ssh.fedora at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ssh.fedora at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Monday 21 July 2014 11:42 PM, Amila Perera wrote:
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     This is my first mail on fedora mailing list.
>>
>>     I can't get the following to display colours with LESS command on
>>     my terminal,
>>     when viewing man pages.
>>     I am using Fedora 20 with KDE. My shell is zsh.
>>     -----------
>>     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=$'\E[01;04;35m' \
>>     man "$@"
>>     }
>>
>
>     have you tried "most" ..??
>
>     try following
>
>     yum install most
>
>     export PAGER="most"
>
>     or
>
>     export PAGER="/usr/bin/most -s"
>
>     now try to viewing man for any command
>
>     say
>
>     man date
>
>
>     !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>

may be this[1],  can help

[1] 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108699/documentation-on-less-termcap-variables


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