# Configuration file for environment related options for all shells.
-# Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Simon Ruderich
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Simon Ruderich
#
# This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# Use UTF-8 encoding in the terminal. Don't use LC_ALL as it's used for
-# debugging purposes. Thanks to twb in Freenode/#screen (2009-10-02 10:25).
+# debugging purposes. Thanks to twb in #screen on Freenode (2009-10-02 10:25
+# CET).
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG
+# Just in case a nice administrator tries to force LC_ALL on us ...
+unset LC_ALL
+
+# Make sure $LANGUAGE is not set. It's a GNU extension which can overwrite
+# variables like $LANG or $LC_ALL.
+unset LANGUAGE
+
# Add ~/bin and ~/.bin and ~/.shell/bin to PATH if available.
if test -d "$HOME/.shell/bin"; then
PATH="$HOME/.shell/bin:$PATH"
EDITOR=vim
export EDITOR
-# Set less as pager, its configuration is done through the .less file.
+# Set less as pager, its configuration is done through the ~/.less file.
PAGER=less
export PAGER
+escape=`printf '\033'`
+# Color man pages viewed with less, thanks to [1].
+#
+# [1]: http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/572-less-colors-for-man-pages.html
+#
+# Color bold strings in bold blue.
+LESS_TERMCAP_md="${escape}[01;34m"
+LESS_TERMCAP_me="${escape}[0m"
+export LESS_TERMCAP_md LESS_TERMCAP_me
+# Color underlined strings in bold yellow and underlined.
+LESS_TERMCAP_us="${escape}[01;4;33m"
+LESS_TERMCAP_ue="${escape}[0m"
+export LESS_TERMCAP_us LESS_TERMCAP_ue
+# Color standout mode in bold black with yellow background.
+LESS_TERMCAP_so="${escape}[01;30;43m"
+LESS_TERMCAP_se="${escape}[0m"
+export LESS_TERMCAP_so LESS_TERMCAP_se
+
# Use ~/.tmp as directory for temporary files if available to reduce security
# problems on multi-user systems.
if test -O "$HOME/.tmp" && test -d "$HOME/.tmp"; then
export TMP TEMP TMPDIR
fi
-# Change rlwrap's home directory to prevent cluttering ~.
+# Change rlwrap's home directory to prevent cluttering ~/.
RLWRAP_HOME="$HOME/.shell/rlwrap"
export RLWRAP_HOME