On June 28, 2021 3:02 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >Randall S. Becker wrote: >> On June 28, 2021 2:12 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> >Felipe Contreras wrote: >> >> It has been suggested that we "educate our users" to configure less >> >> in the right way, instead of colorizing man pages ourselves [1]. >> >> >> >> The question is *how*? Nobody has answered that. >> >> >> >> This is a continuation of the thread below. >> > >> >> I am still waiting for an explanation. >> >> >> >> How does the user properly colorize man pages for both man and git >> >> in a way that works in all distributions? >> > >> >No response. >> >> I think you're looking for something does not exist because it is >> platform and environment dependent. > >Yes, but there's always some common denominator. > >> There are two ways to configure git to work with 'less' on NonStop and >> neither is identical to Ubuntu or Windows. > >But I'm not talking about configuring git to work with less. > >Once you have less configured, how do you add colors? For example how do you turn bold into red bold? > >> Don't even get me started on what less does in a TSO/ISPF environment >> where everything is some single colour on black unless your emulator >> supports 3279 emulation. > >Is it even possible to add color there? I'm talking about platforms where color is possible in the first place. > >> >It's safe to say at this point that nobody knows what that configuration would look like. >> >> Nobody, perhaps, knows how to do this on every platform in the known >> universe 😊. There is no "one way" to do this consistently everywhere. > >In the platforms where color is supported, and you have less, what does this do? > > LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;31m' LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[m' git help git This only works in bash/shell. So if you are not initiating from a shell, you cannot use this technique.
