Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:49:45 -0700 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nice man pages? Message-ID: <87aa8n4p8m.fsf@oak.localnet> In-Reply-To: <87obx44d5w.fsf@oak.localnet> (Carl Johnson's message of "Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:58:19 -0700") References: <20111026032037.23014255@davenulle.org> <87obx44d5w.fsf@oak.localnet>
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Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes:
> Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but
>> is there a way to do this with the base system (ie without adding port)?
>
> I use a colorized termcap with less, but it also works with
> /usr/bin/more. It depends on what type of terminal you are using it
> on. I have it for xterm and rxvt (which is what I use). This works for
> manpages, but you can also colorize your prompt.
Obviously I hadn't thought that through since there is no xterm in the
base system, but both the xterm and rxvt termcap entries seem to work on
the console. Just to be sure I made up a colorized cons25 entry. I
left in the underline attribute, even though the console doesn't seem to
support underline. I also added the nc capability that Thomas Dickey
suggested should be used. The revised version of my ~/.termcap is below
if anybody is interested:
-------- start ~/.termcap -------------
# these are just changes to the standard FreeBSD termcap - 2010-12-13 cdj
# added cons25 and nc capability - 2011-10-26 cdj
xterm|xterm-color|X11 terminal emulator:\
:md=\E[33;1m:so=\E[36;1m:se=\E[0m:us=\E[32;4m:ue=\E[0;24m:nc#35:\
:ti@:te@:tc=xterm-xfree86:
rxvt|rxvt terminal emulator (X Window System):\
:md=\E[33;1m:so=\E[36;1m:se=\E[0m:us=\E[32;4m:ue=\E[0;24m:nc#35:\
:pa#64:Co#8:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:\
:tc=rxvt-mono:
cons25|colorized version of cons25|:\
:md=\E[33;1m:so=\E[36;1m:se=\E[0m:us=\E[32;4m:ue=\E[0;24m:nc#35:\
:ac=l\332m\300k\277j\331u\264t\303v\301w\302q\304x\263n\305`^Da\260f\370g\361~\371.^Y-^Xh\261i^U0\333y\363z\362:\
:tc=cons25w:
-------- end ~/.termcap -------------
Note that the ac capability in cons25 should be a single (long) line.
--
Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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