Beautiful man pages on #OpenBSD with bat 🐱$ doas pkg_add bat$ man pf.conf | bat -pl man

[justine@snac.smithies.me.uk]

I have the following set in my .kshrc to do exactly that.

# coloured man pages
man() {
    sh -c "man '$@' | col -bx | bat -l man"
}

[ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@obj Hope to see https://github.com/plp13/qman soon in ports

[bryan@dusty.ninja]

@justine
Woah, a Korn shell user.

[hucste@framapiaf.org]

@justine

Why do you rewrite a new man function?

I dont understand why you added `col -bx`? Option `-l` seems to arrange the text in columns; what is the diff?

[justine@snac.smithies.me.uk]

https://man.openbsd.org/col

[hucste@framapiaf.org]

@justine

Excuse-me, but I dont understand more!
I've read the col manpage, (before asking) but I dont understand why adding it to bat!

[pirateprentice@bsd.network]

@ricardo @obj
Even beautifuller man pages on #OpenBSD with mandoc (and mupdf as pdf-viewer)

$ bman () { man -w "$1" | xargs mandoc -T pdf > /tmp/"$1".pdf; mupdf /tmp/"$1".pdf ; rm /tmp/"$1".pdf; }
$ bman less

[justine@snac.smithies.me.uk]

Sorry trying to remember where I got that from but was something related to this.

https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2022-09-05-man-col/

[hucste@framapiaf.org]

@justine
OK, good!

Thanks

[hucste@framapiaf.org]

@justine @obj

See: https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/post/bat-cat/
(particularly the acknowledgements section)

[justine@snac.smithies.me.uk]

Haha very nice ! Thank you ️

CC: @obj@bsd.cafe

[jhx@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@obj
I use neovim as my pager here - also pretty cool

export MANPAGER='nvim +Man!'

[izder456@fe.disroot.org]

@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk @obj@bsd.cafe
i use zsh on my OpenBSD boxes:
this is what i came up with:

if command -v bat &> /dev/null; then
    zsh-defer eval $(bat --completion zsh)
    export BAT_THEME=ansi
    alias cat="bat -pp"
    alias bat="bat -p"
    # colored manpages
    function man {
        sh -c "man '$@' | col -bx | \bat -pl man"
    }
    # colored -h and --help
    alias -g -- -h='-h 2>&1 | \bat -pl help'
    alias -g -- --help='--help 2>&1 | \bat -pl help'
    # help command
    function help {
        sh -c "'$@' --help 2>&1 | \bat -pl help"
    }
fi

the if command -v bat bit is nice to have in case bat for whatever reason isn't on your system.