On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 03:23, Keith McGavin wrote: > picked this up from a newsgroup to enable man pages to display > bold text in console. > > >You may want to try "most" as your pager. "man -P /usr/bin/most man" to see; > >and set your color preferences in $HOME/.mostrc > > an alias such as the following can be put in /etc/profile or .bashrc. > > > alias manc='man -P /usr/bin/most $1' >
Or you could set PAGER=most in your environment. NB many distros do not install most by default. The name is another little unix joke - more - original pager, even exists in dos less - the default in most linux systems, allows paging up as well as down most - even smarter again. echo $PAGER to find out what your pager is by default > > --- > keith. > > > > > >
