How dow we educate our users to configure less?

It has been suggested that we "educate our users" to configure less in
the right way, instead of colorizing man pages ourselves [1].

The question is *how*? Nobody has answered that.

This is a continuation of the thread below.

Felipe Contreras wrote:

Jeff King wrote:

quoted

Moreover, I think that if they like colorized manpages, they'd probably
want them when running "man" themselves.

This doesn't matter.

The user might have "configured" man like this:

  man() {
      LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[01;31m' \
      LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m' \
      LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\e[01;44;33m' \
      LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\e[0m' \
      LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[01;32m' \
      LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m' \
      command man "$@"
  }

Git isn't going utilize that.

Arch Linux recommends the above, and so does many online resources.

So even if it's the case what you said, that they want colorized man
pages, *and* they have man configured, that doesn't matter.

In addition, not everyone is a Linux guru. Some might want colorized man
pages, but not know how to get them.

I myself only learned it was possible to configure that about a year ago
when reading Arch Linux's installation guide. Luckily I clicked "Color
output in console", even though I thought I already had most console
software configured.

I have 20 years of experience using Linux. Some people have less.

You presume too much of our users.

And you still haven't explained how they can properly configure
colorized man pages for both man and git, in a way that works in all
distributions.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Color_output_in_console

I am still waiting for an explanation.

How does the user properly colorize man pages for both man and git in a
way that works in all distributions?

Cheers.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210523054454.1188757-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com/ (local)

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Felipe Contreras