color display with man pages

[Mark LaPierre]

On 07/23/14 05:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks Corinna.  That worked quite well for colored man pages.  Now I've
got figure out how to extend the concept to other applications.

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