Hello,
On Thu, 04 Jul 2019, Christian Groessler wrote:
>On 7/4/19 9:19 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
>> * Christian Groessler:
>> > My question is how do I get rid of colors in "emerge", "man" and other
>> > command line programs.
>> The methods vary between command line tools. You can for example
>> disable the 'manpager' USE flag for sys-apps/man-db. The manual page for
>> emerge mentions different methods (search for "--color"). Depending on
>> the terminal software you use, you might be able to select monochromatic
>> colour profiles (iterm2 for macOS does support this).
>
>In the meanwhile I had found out the "NOCOLORS" setting in make.conf which
>works for "emerge".
Your term looks rather low contrast with that rather bright dark
greenish background... I use 'grey5' ;)
You can also adjust the colours see 'man 5 color.map' and
/etc/portage/color.map.
And/or even patch emerge's output routines (I think there's some stuff
that has no variable in color.map, and which is hard to read on
grey5). I use this:
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/etc/portage/patches/sys-apps/portage/portage_output_colors-2.3.44.patch
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diff -x '*~' -purN a/lib/portage/output.py b/lib/portage/output.py
--- a/lib/portage/output.py 2017-12-16 01:48:01.000000000 +0100
+++ b/lib/portage/output.py 2017-12-16 05:54:28.701929379 +0100
@@ -100,8 +115,8 @@ codes["darkgreen"] = codes["0x00AA00"]
codes["yellow"] = codes["0xFFFF55"]
codes["brown"] = codes["0xAA5500"]
-codes["blue"] = codes["0x5555FF"]
-codes["darkblue"] = codes["0x0000AA"]
+codes["blue"] = esc_seq + "36;1m" # codes["0x5555FF"]
+codes["darkblue"] = esc_seq + "36m" # codes["0x0000AA"]
codes["fuchsia"] = codes["0xFF55FF"]
codes["purple"] = codes["0xAA00AA"]
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>man pages in color are the other most important problem right now. I will
>check out your suggestion.
AFAIK that mostly depends on what you use as pager for man, e.g. less.
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Controlling formatted output
-P pager, --pager=pager
Specify which output pager to use. By default, man uses less
-s. This option overrides the $MANPAGER environment variable,
which in turn overrides the $PAGER environment variable. It is
not used in conjunction with -f or -k.
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So, have a look at the MANPAGER and PAGER variables if they're set. If
they are, have a look at the config of that pager, else at that of
'less(1)'. Oh, and have a look at your terminal options. E.g. use
'xterm -cm' instead of 'xterm'... (or set the according Xresource) and
all you get is black & white ;)
HTH,
-dnh
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