Color man pages with bat#5491
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Pull request overview
This PR improves theme consistency by making man output go through bat for syntax-highlighted, theme-aligned rendering in shell sessions.
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- Export
MANROFFOPT="-c"to improve terminal-friendly roff output. - Export
MANPAGERto pipemanoutput throughcolandbatusing themansyntax.
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This makes the man pages being syntax-highlighted with current Omarchy theme, thus improving on the overall consistency of the themes across the system.
Got the idea from CachyOS default fish config: https://github.com/CachyOS/cachyos-fish-config/blob/main/cachyos-config.fish
Example using Catppuccin theme: