Am 19.08.2016 13:06, schrieb Steffen Nurpmeso: > "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. >
hi guy, please make sure that this is a reversible change. personally i find dircorlors annoying, i can not read anything with certain combinations. An i have no idea what colors you would like to have in a man page. re, wh
