Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:58:54 +0400 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?B?R2VybeFuIE0u?= Bravo <german.mb@gmail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Regarding MANCOLOR Message-ID: <20120213085854.GB9771@lo0.su> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B98EDkjPwCB6KXLs0BKXoJPV7ULxPBrtx81Fm%2BqTdpkvtqB8g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2B98EDkjPwCB6KXLs0BKXoJPV7ULxPBrtx81Fm%2BqTdpkvtqB8g@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 05:10:44PM -0600, Germán M. Bravo wrote: > Hello, I saw you wronte something in the mailing lists, some time ago, > regarding MANCOLOR in FreeBSD... however, I've tried in every way I > can to make it work, but I cant. > > I'm using TERM=xterm-256color and if I have MANCOLOR=1, I see no > coloring in my man pages. If I don't set MANCOLOR, and instead set > LESS_TERMCAP_* env variables, I do see colors in my terminal (it > doesn't start with less by default, so I have to use MANPAGER=less > too, if I want it to use less)... If I set both LESS_TERMCAP_* and > also MANCOLOR=1, man starts with the `less` pager by default, but I > see no colors (even with LESS_TERMCAP_* added) > > Could you shed some light in this issue if you can? > I'm trying all this under FreeBSD 9.0 in a remote SSL terminal (xterm-256color) Support for colors in man(1) and groff(1) doesn't mean that manpages got painted. One manpage is sure colorized, one that talks about color support. Try it: man grotty
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