nice man pages?

[Carl Johnson]

Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd at 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 at peak.org