mostlike colored manpages [solved]

frogb · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 50

I've been trying to get colored man pages using: http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/569-colored-manpages.html

I did this before on another computer setup about the same but it isn't working now.

This is xfce terminal showing a man page using the most pager (which I'm trying to replace).
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9559/mostlc6.png

This is how it looks with less/mostlike:
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/3928/mostlikezh3.png

Different terminals and shells show the same thing. Any idea what is wrong?

yngwin · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject:

Not an answer to your question, but I'm using vimmanpager, you could look into that.
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frogb · n00b Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 50

I didn't know about vimpager but it still has problems with colors. I might try it later.

I copied /etc/man.conf from the other computer and now it works. Part of the diff is:

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject:

Found a new solution to this old problem of man apparently generating illegible ANSI sequences.

Seems that the new default for nroff is to generate ANSI codes. And old systems tend to have a LESS environment variable defined to something other than the system default.

The system default is to include -R into the LESS environment variable, which will cause less(1) to interpret ANSI codes, and generate proper coloring.

Add -R to your LESS environment variable to fix the issue.
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