Re: [dev] Re: [dev] Man coloring. [was: Usage, -h, --help, help, synopsis, …]

Lorenzo Bolla dixit (2010-08-18, 15:09):

> > > > As for bold, fortunately my terminal has it disabled,
> > >
> > > I set up nice colors for bold and underline so things are easy to read
> > > (see the attached screenshot). If anyone is interested, my Xdefaults
> > > file is here:
> > >
> > > http://github.com/sunaku/home/blob/master/.Xdefaults
> >
> > Strange thing is that my man doesn't get colorized (only bolded via
> > brightening up) in X terminal emulators. In the linux console I get
> > proper colors. Any hints how to enable coloring in X terminals?
> >
> >
> >
> I believe the options to colorize man are
> Rxvt.colorBD : #8ac6f2
> Rxvt.colorUL : #95e454

Suraj Kurapati dixit (2010-08-18, 10:38):

> Correct. And these are the settings for XTerm:
>
> XTerm*vt100.colorMode : True
> XTerm*vt100.colorBDMode : True
> XTerm*vt100.colorULMode : True
> XTerm*vt100.veryBoldColors : 6
> XTerm*vt100.colorBD : #8ac6f2
> XTerm*vt100.colorUL : #95e454

They both worked, thanks a million.

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