color display with man pages

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 22 22:40, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 07/22/14 04:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jul 22 13:37, Amila Perera wrote:
> >> Thank you for your feedback.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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).
> >>>
> >>
> >> Well, I only get the yellow status line color and some variables getting
> >> bold.
> >> I have never tried this with bash, though.
> > 
> > Try this additionally to setting the LESS_TERMCAP_xx vars:
> > 
> >   export GROFF_NO_SGR=yes
> > 
> 
> Hey Corinna,
> 
> Could you share some more details on how to use the "LESS_TERMCAP_xx
> vars" and "export GROFF_NO_SGR=yes" commands?  I'm assuming that you put
> them in your .bashrc file, no?

No, I'm tcsh user, sorry :}

I was just curious and experimented with it.  For bash you can do
something like this:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-colored-man-pages-with-less-command/
and just add the GROFF_NO_SGR setting to it, I guess.


Corinna