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Bug 124369 - colors in man pages
colors in man pages
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 53436
Product: vte
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: High enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: VTE Maintainers
VTE Maintainers
needswork
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-10-11 12:38 UTC by Ionut Nicu
Modified: 2006-04-20 13:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

Attachments
Patch for this (637 bytes, patch)
2003-11-20 10:23 UTC, Kiran Kumar Immidi 		needs-work Details | Review

Description Ionut Nicu 2003-10-11 12:38:13 UTC 
I would be nice if the man pages showed up with colors.
xterm has that feature.
Comment 1 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2003-10-11 21:00:34 UTC 
Do you see colored man pages in xterm?
Comment 2 Ionut Nicu 2003-10-12 00:48:11 UTC 
Actually I do. Some keywords are highlighted in different colors.
For example: NAME, SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, AUTHORS, etc.. are colored in
blue, while some other options, program names etc. are colored in green.
Normal text color is white/black depending whether you have reverse
video option activated or not.

Do you want me to send you a screenshot?
Comment 3 Kiran Kumar Immidi 2003-11-20 10:23:55 UTC 
Created attachment 21638 [details] [review]
Patch for this
Comment 4 Kiran Kumar Immidi 2003-11-20 10:26:08 UTC 
Man pages are displayed with keywords and options highlighted as in
xterm (which is also what the reporter has described).
Comment 5 Olav Vitters 2003-11-20 16:08:20 UTC 
Patch is for vte, moving...
Comment 6 Nalin Dahyabhai 2004-04-30 05:54:31 UTC 
Patch really wants vte to emulate xterm's colorBDMode and colorULMode options,
which display bold/underline with different colors instead of actually drawing
text in bold or with underlines.

The best way to go about this is to offer gnome-terminal a way to specify colors
for bold and underlined text, as it does for highlighted and dim text now, and
to let that color be set in gnome-terminal instead of hard-coding colors.
Comment 7 Kjartan Maraas 2004-10-18 09:48:53 UTC 
Comment on attachment 21638 [details] [review]
Patch for this

Setting needs-work based on Nalin's comment.
Comment 8 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-04-20 13:55:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53436 ***