Re: [PATCH] help: colorize man pages

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

I guess what the documentation says matches what end users expect (I as an end user certainly do expect that "git help -m foo" is running the familiar "man" command on something that is related to "foo").

So while making the "less" customization more discoverable and easily accessible would be a win for users, I have to agree that is out of scope of this project's mission.

We used to give helpful hints how to configure LESS environment variable in a way that does not conflict with our use somewhere in the doc. I think the hints how to configure these set of environment variables for "less" users may belong to a similar place in the doc, if we wanted to do something, but going beyond that would probably be more confusing and disorienting than helpful to our users (they'll start wondering why "git help"'s output does not look like the output from "man ls").

Thanks for discussing this topic.