*/env: Move man page coloring from zsh/env to shell/env.

[config/dotfiles.git] / shell / env

diff --git a/shell/env b/shell/env
index 74f676ce748d93d774bc0c92a20a8ffe001d8408..2a1fc192f83428e79b08b50e37aa5c3f8d26db11 100644 (file)
--- a/shell/env
+++ b/shell/env
@@ -20,10 +20,15 @@ source_debug ". ~/.shell/env"
 
 
 # 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
 
+# 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"
@@ -43,6 +48,24 @@ export EDITOR
 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