colored man pages using less

[Vicfred]

I'm using this to color my man pages in zsh with urxvt

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my .zshrc

export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'

but it isn't working and I know it works because I tested it in another computer/distribution. How do I make gentoo to show colors in my man pages using less?

[aCOSwt]

Have you tried to set the R option to less ?
You can try this setting the MANPAGER environment variable to /usr/bin/less -isR

[Mike Hunt]

Isn't the less R switch already set by default?

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 ~ # cat /etc/env.d/70less
LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
LESS="-R -M --shift 5"

[aCOSwt]

Isn't the less R switch already set by default?

Well, as usual... you are right Mike ! R is actually set as default !
However :

The environment variable is parsed before the command line, so command line options override the LESS environment variable.

on one hand and

By default, man uses /usr/bin/less -is.

(unless MANPAGER environment variable is set or -P option is given.)

I understand from this that passing -is as options to less, man will override the LESS variable settings

[Vicfred]

I still don't have any colors in my man pages, I tried to add/modify the variable MANPAGER/PAGER variable in my zshrc, I modified the /etc/man.conf and I tried this http://bugs.gentoo.org/184604 but nothing worked

[yngwin]

I prefer to use most or vimmanpager as more colorful MANPAGER.

[Mike Hunt]

Try slightly changing your lines like this, it works here in bash shell with less:

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# Less Colors for Man Pages
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'       # begin blinking
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;38;5;74m'  # begin bold
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'           # end mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'           # end standout-mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[38;5;246m'    # begin standout-mode - info box
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'           # end underline
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[04;38;5;146m' # begin underline

Well, as usual... you are right Mike !

I wish that were true, but alas, not always.

[Vicfred]

sorry to post in this old thread but I just fixed the problem, here is how someone helped me http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... -on-gentoo

resume: I added

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export GROFF_NO_SGR=1

to my .zshrc

[sipingal]

@Vicfred FYI, http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-74 ... orize.html