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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 04:28:34 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqlf8d6ty5.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tun1qp91.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Mon, 17 May 2021 18:48:04 +0200")

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> This looks much better.
>
> I wonder a good follow-up (hint, hint! :) would be to have
> exec_man_man() and exec_man_cmd() in builtin/help.c set this depending
> on color.ui (so we'd do it by default with "auto").
>
> Then e.g. "git help git" would look prettier than "man git".

As long as color.man.ui can be used to override the blanket
color.ui, I think it is a good idea.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-17 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-15 22:10 Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 16:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-17 19:28   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-05-17 22:44     ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-17 22:54       ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-17 23:33         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  1:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-18  4:27         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  7:16           ` Jeff King
2021-05-18 13:21             ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18 14:27             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-18  1:28   ` brian m. carlson
2021-05-18  2:12     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-18  4:35       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-18  4:31     ` Felipe Contreras

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