Re: ANSI color and manpages

Alan James <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:52:14 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:36:04PM -0800, The Rev. Shamim, D.D., LFHCfS wrote:
> Can anyone
> tell me how to disable the !@^%#@&^$%*^& colors? If I can expunge all
> signs of SGR ANSI color from my system I'll be happy.

I think its your pager. "most" has color, "more" and "less" dont.
"export PAGER=less" should sort it. Or maybe most has a config file somewhere.

Alan.