color display with man pages
Hi all,
This is my first mail on fedora mailing list.
I can't get the following to display colours with LESS command on my
terminal,
when viewing man pages.
I am using Fedora 20 with KDE. My shell is zsh.
---
man()
{
env LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;34m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;33;40m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m' \
LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;04;35m' \
man "$@"
}
---
The same function works perfectly fine in Ubuntu.
I tried serveral terminals like Konsole, Guake, Terminology, but none of
them seem to display the
colors.
Can someone explain me why this doesn't display the colors in Fedora 20.
Is there any workaround to solve this problem?
Thank you in advance.
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*Amila Perera.*
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Re: color display with man pages
Thank you Jatin.
I knew 'most' would work.
It is able to display colours as well.
But I am used to 'less' and its key bindings.
I am quite puzzled as why the termcap settings for less don't work in
Fedora20.
Do you have any explanations??
Just a few hours ago I installed CentOS 7 and it worked fine there too with
KDE.
Do you know any sort of workaround to this problem??
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Jatin K wrote:
> On Monday 21 July 2014 11:42 PM, Amila Perera wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is my first mail on fedora mailing list.
>
> I can't get the following to display colours with LESS command on my
> terminal,
> when viewing man pages.
> I am using Fedora 20 with KDE. My shell is zsh.
> ---
> man()
> {
> env LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m' \
> LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;34m' \
> LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m' \
> LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m' \
> LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;33;40m' \
> LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m' \
> LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;04;35m' \
> man "$@"
> }
>
>
> have you tried "most" ..??
>
> try following
>
> yum install most
>
> export PAGER="most"
>
> or
>
> export PAGER="/usr/bin/most -s"
>
> now try to viewing man for any command
>
> say
>
> man date
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Warm Regards
>
> --
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Re: color display with man pages
Thank you for your feedback. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > I tried with bash, it seems to work ... somewhat. I see a yellow status > at the bottom, but otherwise I see a regular man page. When I `type > man' after defining your function, I get a few colours among the variable > definitions (blue, red, and underlined). > Well, I only get the yellow status line color and some variables getting bold. I have never tried this with bash, though. -- *Amila Perera.* -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: color display with man pages
Thanks a lot Corinna. The following setting did the trick for me. Now the output on Ubuntu & Fedora looks the same. Thank you once again. On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Try this additionally to setting the LESS_TERMCAP_xx vars: > > export GROFF_NO_SGR=yes > -- *Amila Perera.* -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: color display with man pages
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > $ man -Hlynx less It's the first time I ever used such thing. It looks quite good, especially the hyperlinks etc. Thank you for the information -- *Amila Perera.* -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
