On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 08:58:19PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Patrick Lamaiziere <patf...@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.
fwiw, without also setting the NC capability (something like NC#35), it'll confuse curses/ncurses since that conflicts with the normal color controls. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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