nice man pages?

[Polytropon]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:08:47 +0200, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote:
> Le Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:43:29 -0400,
> Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> a écrit :
> 
> > >  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 believe the answer will be "Not going to happen."  Color is
> > nice, but the system is desugned so it can be easily run when the
> > system console is something indeterminate at the other end of a 300
> > baud serial line.
> 
> We have ls with color (and no problem with serial console, there is no
> color when using it). Why not a nice manual?

The Midnight Commander comes with a file viewer that can
display manpages in color:

	% mcview /usr/share/man/man3/signal.3.gz

A very nice manual. Additionally, there's xman. :-)




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