[SOLVED] colored manpages not working

[theshank]

I added the following lines to the end of my bashrc.

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export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\e[1;32m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;32m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[01;33m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[1;4;31m'

Logged out and logged in. However, I am not getting any colors in manpages.

I did this on a fresh install of ArcolinuxD (with XFCE as the desktop).

I tried looking into the files that might be sourced while starting `bash` but I couldn't find anything that would cause this. The closes I could find was that Arcolinux has a line

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unset TERMCAP

in /etc/profile but I dont think that it should cause this issue. I am not sure how to solve this.

[erikdubois]

check out 'most'

[theshank]

check out 'most'

Thanks Erik for the prompt response. I tried using `most` as well. I can see that in `.bashrc`, that came with ArcolinuxD, the `PAGER` is set to `most`. But I am not getting any colors in most either. Here is a sample screenshot:

[fennec]

downgrade package groff to 1.23.0-3 if you are on 1.22.4-10

or

add export GROFF_NO_SGR=1 to your ~/.bashrc

see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=287185

[theshank]

downgrade package groff to 1.23.0-3 if you are on 1.22.4-10

or

add export GROFF_NO_SGR=1 to your ~/.bashrc

see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=287185

Thank you! This solves it for me.