Or is there maybe a way to set the pager for all help related queries to some command? I’m using bat and would like to pipe all --help through | bat --language=help by default for the syntax highlighting and colored output… Or if you know a lower effort way to color the output of --help let me know.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I use alias man='batman --pager="less -RF" for colorized manpages on my workstation, but I’ll save this for sure. It might be handy on smaller embedded systems.

    I wonder why colorizing manpages like this is not default in most distros. That seems like an obvious thing to configure for end user’s quality of life.

    • RedWeasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I wonder why colorizing manpages like this is not default in most distros. That seems like an obvious thing to configure for end user’s quality of life.

      My best guess would be that each terminal could display differently or be buggy and a “lowest common denominator” approach where it work everywhere. I know blue tends to be to dark unless I change the color to a lighter shade and the font could make a difference as well.