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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:53 am    Post subject: Colorize manpage on Gentoo Reply with quote

There is little difference on Gentoo Linux. I am introducing two solutions to implement it.

Solution I

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Using sys-apps/man & sys-apps/most
1. Install sys-apps/most
Code:
# emerge -v sys-apps/most


2. Modify /etc/man.conf
Code:
NROFF           /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc

to
Code:
NROFF           /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc


3. Copy a rcfile of the most
Code:
$ bzcat /usr/share/doc/most-5.0.0a/lesskeys.rc.bz2 > ~/.mostrc


4. Place PAGER environment variable to user's profile(such as ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile etc.)
Code:
# export PAGER=most


Solution II
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Using sys-apps/man-db & sys-apps/less
1. Install sys-apps/man-db
Code:
# emerge -Cv sys-apps/man
# emerge -v sys-apps/man-db
# emerge -v sys-apps/less


2. Modify /etc/man_db.conf
Code:
#DEFINE  nroff   nroff -mandoc

to
Code:
DEFINE  nroff   nroff -c -mandoc


3. Place the less related environment variables to user's profile
Code:
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'


Verify the effects
Now we can test the screen of a manpage:
Code:
$ man man


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Solution III
Use vimmanpager :P
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-691090-highlight-vimmanpager.html
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ppurka wrote:
Solution III
Use vimmanpager :P
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-691090-highlight-vimmanpager.html


Thank you very much.

The vimpager is very cool. I compared the vimmanpager with most/less. The vimpager is more colorful & beautiful. But it seems the vimpager loses many colors. Any body knows how to fix it? :(

I used following comand to compared the output:
Quote:
man 2 open
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You will probably need to use a vim color theme. Many are available at the vim website, or here:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Documentation, Tips & Tricks.

(Maybe this time I'll finally implement this on my systems. :P)
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

remember than the builld of some packages will sure fail with MANPAGER/PAGER set to vimmanpager or most. I not remember exacly what are but the simple solution is to override it for emerge to the default.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

M^woman (whithout man) has the same effect in emacs.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

djinnZ wrote:
remember than the builld of some packages will sure fail with MANPAGER/PAGER set to vimmanpager or most. I not remember exacly what are but the simple solution is to override it for emerge to the default.
Never faced this problem till date.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Solution II works for me w/o installing man-db. Just modify /etc/man.conf instead of /etc/man-db.conf.
Note: It's important that you remove /var/cache/man after making the change to /etc/man.conf. Otherwise you'll still be using the cached version of the manpage which was processed w/o the -c option.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:13 am    Post subject: Sorry! I made a mistake:( Reply with quote

Nerevar wrote:
Solution II works for me w/o installing man-db. Just modify /etc/man.conf instead of /etc/man-db.conf.
Note: It's important that you remove /var/cache/man after making the change to /etc/man.conf. Otherwise you'll still be using the cached version of the manpage which was processed w/o the -c option.



/etc/man-db.conf should be /etc/man_db.conf. :(
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vimpager ++
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ppurka wrote:
djinnZ wrote:
remember than the builld of some packages will sure fail with MANPAGER/PAGER set to vimmanpager or most. I not remember exacly what are but the simple solution is to override it for emerge to the default.
Never faced this problem till date.
This is an example. Adding a MANPAGER=/usr/bin/less to /etc/make.conf or running
Code:
MANPAGER=/usr/bin/less emerge somethingbroken
is the simple fix.
Nothing wrong (i use vimpager) but better advise for possible issues. The affected packages are not often updated (i think gpm and some old base libraries of X have the same troubles) so is reasonable than you have never faced it. Note than the build will hang with MANPAGER=most also (in fact with everything different from less).
The two cents of mine about this tip. :wink:
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nerevar wrote:
Solution II works for me w/o installing man-db. Just modify /etc/man.conf instead of /etc/man-db.conf.
Note: It's important that you remove /var/cache/man after making the change to /etc/man.conf. Otherwise you'll still be using the cached version of the manpage which was processed w/o the -c option.


It worked for me, too; but some manual don't. Trying "man man" or "man mplayer" works great, but "man most" and "man less" shows me some flat monochrome pages... It seems to be kind of coloured because the "command line" below is with colors, but not the pages... Any idea of how to solve this?

P.s. Have i, perhaps, to emerge man-db? Does it matter?
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

very cool
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