Subject: Re: Man pages have colors? A deep dive into groff

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 04:28:34 +0900

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]> writes:

> This looks much better.
>
> I wonder a good follow-up (hint, hint! :) would be to have
> exec_man_man() and exec_man_cmd() in builtin/help.c set this depending
> on color.ui (so we'd do it by default with "auto").
>
> Then e.g. "git help git" would look prettier than "man git".

As long as color.man.ui can be used to override the blanket
color.ui, I think it is a good idea.