"James K. Lowden" <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote: |http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2016-08-15/colorized-man-pages-understood-a\ |nd-customized | |https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296000 | |It's a little far afield, but some here might be interested in the |interest in manpages. mdoc has no color features, leaving folks to |resort to some pretty brutal techniques. | |Raw VT-100 escape sequences, in 2016. Where will it all end?
I think it would be nice to offer people the possibility to specify a list of colours. It shouldn't be too much work to instrument a few important man and mdoc macros and add an environment variable, say, MANUAL_COLOURS, in equal spirit to LS_COLORS. In the Linux world there is now a dircolors(1) command which can be used to control LS_COLORS. Well. Yes, people are interested in that and should have the possibility to do that, exactly like you say. And as flexible as possible. I place it on my TODO list for S-roff. --steffen
