Thursday, December 13, 2012

Colorizing man pages


This is awesome, just stumbled across it at http://www.tuxarena.com/2012/04/tutorial-colored-man-pages-how-it-works/.

Add these lines to .bashrc and man pages take on syntax style highlighting:


export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$(printf '\e[01;31m') # enter blinking mode - red
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$(printf '\e[01;35m') # enter double-bright mode - bold, magenta
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$(printf '\e[0m') # turn off all appearance modes (mb, md, so, us)
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$(printf '\e[0m') # leave standout mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$(printf '\e[01;33m') # enter standout mode - yellow
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$(printf '\e[0m') # leave underline mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$(printf '\e[04;36m') # enter underline mode - cyan
The linked article offers a second color scheme as well.


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