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Old 21-May-2009, 18:40
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Post Color Man Pages?

I'm likely over complicating this, but how do you enable color in man pages? I've tried exporting the below values in .bashrc and also setting my pager to most - neither seems to work.

.bashrc contains

Less Colors for Man Pages
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m' # begin blinking
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;38;5;74m' # begin bold
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m' # end mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m' # end standout-mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[38;5;246m' # begin standout-mode - info box
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m' # end underline
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[04;38;5;146m' # begin underline

I also tried adding the following form colored manpages - nion's blog

alias man="TERMINFO=~/.terminfo/ LESS=C TERM=mostlike PAGER=less man"

(Compiled mostlike and used the above)

I also compiled most and exported PAGER=most

Nothing really seems to work.

Am I missing something obvious here?

Cheers,
Pete
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