Hi, On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 05:10:44PM -0600, Germán M. Bravo wrote: > Hello, I saw you wronte something in the mailing lists, some time ago, > regarding MANCOLOR in FreeBSD... however, I've tried in every way I > can to make it work, but I cant. > > I'm using TERM=xterm-256color and if I have MANCOLOR=1, I see no > coloring in my man pages. If I don't set MANCOLOR, and instead set > LESS_TERMCAP_* env variables, I do see colors in my terminal (it > doesn't start with less by default, so I have to use MANPAGER=less > too, if I want it to use less)... If I set both LESS_TERMCAP_* and > also MANCOLOR=1, man starts with the `less` pager by default, but I > see no colors (even with LESS_TERMCAP_* added) > > Could you shed some light in this issue if you can? > I'm trying all this under FreeBSD 9.0 in a remote SSL terminal > (xterm-256color)
Support for colors in man(1) and groff(1) doesn't mean that manpages got painted. One manpage is sure colorized, one that talks about color support. Try it: man grotty _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"