COLORIT(1)

💖 COLORIT(1) — colorit, the markup script bestie 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

colorit — a script for markuping the text input. Periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

colorit [OPTIONS] [files...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so colorit is literally a script for markuping text input and sending the result to a pager — less -r by default — or to stdout. The markuping rules are described in a configuration file, and that config file gets filtered by a preprocessor (the default is m4). There’s a HOME define set equal to your home directory for the preprocessor, using the -D option that both m4 and cpp support. 💅

This script can colorize text using ANSI escape sequences, or do simple text conversions, and it may be used as a pager instead of less by dict or other programs. In particular, log files, dict, cc, make, or diff output can easily be colorized and viewed. No cap, it’s giving useful. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -V or --version — shows version information.
• -h or --help — shows help information.
• -c file or --config file — specify configuration file. The default is ~/.coloritrc or /etc/dict/colorit.conf.
• -P pager or --pager pager — specify a pager (- for none). The default is less -r.
• --pp preprocessor — specify a preprocessor (- for none).

🎀 FILES 🎀

• ~/.coloritrc — user’s colorit configuration file.
• /etc/dict/colorit.conf — system colorit configuration file.

🧚 CONFIG FILE 🧚

Empty lines, or lines beginning with a sharp sign (#), are ignored. All other lines have this structure: command arg1 arg2 ... argN. All commands are processed one-by-one for each input line. Args strings can be surrounded by double-quote characters. 👑

Currently, only the mark command is available, and it has the following arguments: regexp pre_string post_string. The pre_string and post_string are inserted at the beginning and the end of the substring matched by the regular expression regexp. Slay. 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

The only supported escape sequence in the strings surrounded by double quotes is \033. That’s it, bestie — literally just that one. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

less(1), m4(1), cpp(1), dict(1).

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Signing off from the 28 Oct 2003 edition of COLORIT(1) — manual page icon behavior, fr fr. 🫶💖