* On 2023 08 Jul 14:56 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Ronan, > > At 2023-07-08T08:46:40+0000, Ronan Pigott wrote: > > After updating to 1.23 I can no longer change the color of man pages > > with LESS_TERMCAP_* vars. > > Today I learned such a feature exists. Despite Mark Nudelman having had > up to 39 years to document it, apparently the only place the feature is > described is on StackExchange.[1]
I suppose that since my finger always accidentally hits the 'd' key instead of the 'r' key whenever I received those generous offers in email to raise my page ranking via SEO (search engine optimization) you weren't led here: https://www.n0nb.us/blog/2020/02/tinkering-in-the-terminal-with-tput/ :-/ ;-) :-D Go about 3/4 the way down the page and there I show the settings I use to unify the man page colors as closely as possible between the Linux console and a given terminal emulator using the LESS_TERMCAP_* variables. It also has comment text that references the same link you gave. > Does any of this hold any promise, in your view? Besides Ronan, and probably others in the future, I too will be "affected" by this. However, since I'm using Debian Stable, I have a couple of years until Trixie is released with Groff 1.23. I'll be looking out for this change and also the deprecation of groffer which I will be keeping a local copy of since I use it quite often. Curiously, I didn't find a mention of LESS_TERMCAP_* on the Arch Linux Wiki. I did find a message in the Arch Linux forum that referenced vimpager: https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1723 Which is claimed to be capable of being used as a pager for man pages. It doesn't seem to be in Debian so I may try it in an Arch VM or manually on one of my Debian systems. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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