macOS man pager issues

[zackhsi]

Hello, I've configured MANPAGER according to the README, but do not see the expected results.

Separately, the man pages from coreutils (installed via brew, configured via export MANPATH=/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH) are incompatible with the bat as MANPAGER.

man 2 select is not available in coreutils, so I've used man dirname in the following screenshot:

Thanks for the project!

[sharkdp]

The result in screenshots do not look too bad, IMO. It could be just the bat syntax highlighting theme which does not support all of the colorizations I've chosen (which could certainly be improved). Which theme are you using? Could you try to select a different one?

[sharkdp]

@zackhsi any update on this? I'm going to close it, but happy to reopen if it is not resolved.

[sharkdp]

a few improvements were made to the man-pager README section, so it might be worth to have a second look.

[zackhsi]

@sharkdp thanks for the README updates.

I believe my trouble is supporting both the macOS and coreutils syntaxes (brew install coreutils). While I'm able to get the ~same highlighting for the macOS manpages, the bat-based highlighting for coreutils pages is not quite as good as other solutions.

Thanks for the excellent tool -- I use it extensively :)

[sharkdp]

If you think there is anything specific that we could fix, please let us know. Have you tried to set MANROFFOPT="-c"?

[zackhsi]

Yep, I've set MANROFFOPT.

Here's what the macOS man page for select looks like. The code bits look OK, but I expect the section headers to stand out, and for things like FD_ISSET to be colored consistently.

[sharkdp]

The code bits look OK, but I expect the section headers to stand out

I think this is a problem with the "TwoDark" theme. Could you please try a different theme (e.g. "Monokai Extended" or "Dracula").

and for things like FD_ISSET to be colored consistently.

I think that's an actual problem with the highlighting. It would be great if you could open a new ticket for this.

[sharkdp]

and for things like FD_ISSET to be colored consistently.

I think that's an actual problem with the highlighting. It would be great if you could open a new ticket for this.

Should be fixed with #718