color man pages
Scott Eberl
possible to get syntax highlighting on man pages to make them easier to
pick out the headings and stuff?
/dev/rob0
I don't know if this is what you want, but I use mc as my man pager,
like this:
#v+
$ which Man
/usr/local/bin/Man
$ cat `which Man`
/usr/bin/mc -cv `/usr/bin/man -w $@`
#v-
It's a simple little thing that gets an error if the requested page
can't be found, but it's good enough for me.
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SuperDaemon
You may want to try "most" as your pager. "man -P /usr/bin/most man" to see;
and set your color preferences in $HOME/.mostrc
Steve Youngs
Live inside XEmacs. Not only will you get the highlighting you want,
but you'll also be able to click on a crossreference and have that man
page open for you.
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Jason Wade
> /usr/bin/mc -cv `/usr/bin/man -w $@`
a keeper
thanks /dev/rob0
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Mark Hill
Scott Eberl <sc...@airea420.com> wrote:
> is it possible to get syntax highlighting on man pages
There are several ways to set up vim as a man pager. These links give
some ideas:
<http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=167>
<http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=121>
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Otako
put the following in your ~/.Xdefaults file. this will provide yellow
and cyan highlighting of bold text and underlines in xterm and aterm
with black/green bg/fg.
! signs are for comments.
if you want it to be system wide (global for all users) then edit
the /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color file.
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! xterm/aterm colours.
*VT100*Background: black
*VT100*Foreground: green
! Enable Colour by default.
*VT100*colorMode: on
*VT100*boldColors: on
*VT100*dynamicColors: on
! the following for man page bold/underline.
! Uncomment this to use color for underline attribute
*VT100*colorULMode: on
!*VT100*underLine: off
! Uncomment this to use color for the bold attribute
*VT100*colorBDMode: on
! Uncomment this to use the bold/underline colors in preference to other colors
*VT100*colorAttrMode: on
! colours defined here
*VT100*color0: black
*VT100*color1: red3
*VT100*color2: green3
*VT100*color3: brown4
*VT100*color4: blue3
*VT100*color5: magenta3
*VT100*color6: cyan3
*VT100*color7: gray90
*VT100*color8: gray30
*VT100*color9: red
*VT100*color10: green
*VT100*color11: yellow
*VT100*color12: blue
*VT100*color13: magenta
*VT100*color14: cyan
*VT100*color15: white
*VT100*colorUL: cyan
*VT100*colorBD: yellow
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Otako
> You may want to try "most" as your pager. "man -P /usr/bin/most man" to see;
> and set your color preferences in $HOME/.mostrc
nice one, an alias such as the following could be used in /etc/profile or
.bashrc.
alias manc='man -P /usr/bin/most $1'
Ross Kendall Axe
Hash: SHA1
Otako wrote:
| On 2004-06-08, SuperDaemon wrote:
|
|>You may want to try "most" as your pager. "man -P /usr/bin/most man"
to see;
|>and set your color preferences in $HOME/.mostrc
|
|
| nice one, an alias such as the following could be used in /etc/profile or
| ..bashrc.
|
| alias manc='man -P /usr/bin/most $1'
|
export PAGER=/usr/bin/most is another option IIRC.
Ross
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Thomas Overgaard
dev wrote :
> I don't know if this is what you want, but I use mc as my man pager,
> like this:
> #v+
> $ which Man
> /usr/local/bin/Man
> $ cat `which Man`
> /usr/bin/mc -cv `/usr/bin/man -w $@`
> #v-
Then you could end this with a 'alias man=/usr/local/bin/Man' and have
full Midnight Commander replacement of the usual man pager.
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/dev/rob0
>> $ which Man
>> /usr/local/bin/Man
>> $ cat `which Man`
>> /usr/bin/mc -cv `/usr/bin/man -w $@`
>
> full Midnight Commander replacement of the usual man pager.
I don't do that because sometimes I want a more standard pager. "Man"
does not work with other man commands, such as "man -k keyword". That
is why I used the uppercase M in the first place: to differentiate.
Oh, that reminds me of a funny root oops I did when I was testing this
little scheme. I started out with it as usr/local/bin/man:
mc -cv `man -w $@`
My first attempt to view a man page with that command about crashed my
system. Kids, don't try this at home. Professional stunt driver on a
closed track. :)
Stuart Winter
> I don't do that because sometimes I want a more standard pager. "Man"
> does not work with other man commands, such as "man -k keyword". That
> is why I used the uppercase M in the first place: to differentiate.
I haven't been folowing this thread, but incase this hasn't
already been mentioned:
installpkg most
export MANPAGER="/usr/bin/most -s"
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Alan Hicks
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In alt.os.linux.slackware, /dev/rob0 dared to utter,
> Oh, that reminds me of a funny root oops I did when I was testing this
> little scheme. I started out with it as usr/local/bin/man:
> mc -cv `man -w $@`
Heh. I can honestly say I haven't done that one!
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