Bat as MANPAGER not working on termux

[atharvadnaik]

What version of bat are you using?

0.17.1

Describe the bug you encountered:

After setting Bat as MANPAGER, man command gives an error.

What did you expect to happen instead?

Show coloured output of man page.

How did you install bat

pkg install bat

Environment

Termux 0.101 on Android 10 (Pie)

Architecture

aarch64

Screenshot

[sharkdp]

While search for the "Unterminated quoted string" error message, I actually found this: termux/termux-packages#4781 😄

Same problem. Seems like termux uses a different man version that does not support complicated MANPAGER commands like this. A workaround is suggested in the linked ticket (build a wrapper script).

[atharvadnaik]

Thanks...I think this should be included either in README or we should write separate wiki for whole package. I am ready to help with this.

[sharkdp]

Including it in the README sounds great.

[paxsali]

This is a workaround:

man bash | col -bx | bat -p -l man

You can keep whatever MANPAGER you have already set and then make a function and put it in your .bashrc.

man() {
    command man "$@" | eval ${MANPAGER}
}

If you are like me and use many different environments, but keep your dotfiles in one place, you may wanna put this behind a test statement which probes for a termux environment, like so:

if [[ -v TERMUX_VERSION ]]; then
    man() {
        command man "$@" | eval ${MANPAGER}
    }
fi

Hope that helps.