[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Updating 'man'

Grigorios Bouzakis grbzks at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 12:34:37 EST 2008


On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:19:19AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> 
> LESSCHARSET
> 
> But that only affects less, and not man pages. It's a fine line, but I
> know at least a few people that don't use less as their MANPAGER

Those people should. If color is the reason for using most, see
http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/572-less-colors-for-man-pages.html
I have added that to the Wiki too:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Post_Installation_Tips#Getting_a_colored_manpage
Less is much more powerful than most.

Greg




More information about the arch-general mailing list