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Subject: Re: Regarding MANCOLOR
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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