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g0del
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 Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:39 pm Post subject: color manpages with most |
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If your like me, you read manpages alot, and often. I dont like the standard output from less. Instead, what I use is the program most, it has colorised(sic) output making reading man pages a whole lot easier.
To install it just emerge it
To have just one user using most, you can change the environment variable
To test it to see if you like it | Code: | export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/most
genix@demon ~# man most
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If you like it, set it in your
with | Code: | echo "export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/most" >> ~/.bashrc
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Either log back out and back in or just
If you like it so much that everyone on the system must have it, as root, set it in gentoo's wonderful
And if you don't have that file, again, as root just create it and put | Code: | MANPAGER=/usr/bin/most
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inside it. Then as root update your profile.env by now your profile.env is updated either log back out and back in or | Code: | | source /etc/profile |
and your done. Enjoy reading your manpages with most. |
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steveL
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I like it :)
I don't like the default colours (bright red for bold is too much) but I can change that.
Thanks for the tip. |
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