Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

[walter harms]

Am 19.08.2016 13:06, schrieb Steffen Nurpmeso:
> "James K. Lowden" <address@hidden> wrote:
>  
> |http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2016-08-15/colorized-man-pages-understood-a\
>  |nd-customized
>  |
>  |https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296000
>  |
>  |It's a little far afield, but some here might be interested in the
>  |interest in manpages.  mdoc has no color features, leaving folks to
>  |resort to some pretty brutal techniques. 
>  |
>  |Raw VT-100 escape sequences, in 2016.  Where will it all end?  
> 
> I think it would be nice to offer people the possibility to
> specify a list of colours.  It shouldn't be too much work to
> instrument a few important man and mdoc macros and add an
> environment variable, say, MANUAL_COLOURS, in equal spirit to
> LS_COLORS.  In the Linux world there is now a dircolors(1) command
> which can be used to control LS_COLORS.  Well.
> 
> Yes, people are interested in that and should have the possibility
> to do that, exactly like you say.  And as flexible as possible.
> I place it on my TODO list for S-roff.
> 

hi guy,
please make sure that this is a reversible change.
personally i find dircorlors annoying, i can not read
anything with certain combinations. An i have no idea
what colors you would like to have in a man page.

re,
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