Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:58:19 -0700 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nice man pages? Message-ID: <87obx44d5w.fsf@oak.localnet> In-Reply-To: <20111026032037.23014255@davenulle.org> (Patrick Lamaiziere's message of "Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:20:37 %2B0200") References: <20111026032037.23014255@davenulle.org>
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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.
It is short, so my ~/.termcap is below:
---------------------- snip -------------------
# this is just changes to the standard FreeBSD termcaps - 2010-12-13 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:\
: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:\
:pa#64:Co#8:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:\
:tc=rxvt-mono:
---------------------- snip -------------------
All that does is set bold to yellow, standout to cyan, and underline to
green. I use white on black, so if you use something else you will
probably have to adjust the colors. I haven't tried 9.0, but this works
on 8.1-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE. You can decide for yourself if that
does what you want.
--
Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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