On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Hi. > > I moved from Slackware to Debian, but there's a couple of things I > have not been able to figure out yet: > > man : > How can I change the behaviour of man to do: > > 1: Adjust itself to the screen size in console and Xterm. It seems > to be 80 chars wide even when I run SVGATextMode and get 132x60.
I have no idea about this one, but do let me know if you find out, as it's a problem I have as well! > 2: Adjust the colors used. From what I remember, the Slackware used > green on keywords, and white on err... filnames? (The colors > aren't that important, but it _did_ improve readability. You can use setterm for this. I use the following in my .bash_profile to set some bits to come out in yellow rather than white (the bits which are in italic on the manpage, ie variables and the like): setterm -ulcolor bright yellow Hope this helps. I find it very useful. &E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?andy.mortimer Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key -- i've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real i've been living so long with my pictures of you that i almost believe that the pictures are all i can feel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
