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fish: move MANPAGER to bat.fish, drop Solarized workaround #41

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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions fish/conf.d/bat.fish
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Expand Up @@ -13,5 +13,8 @@ abbr b bat
# Highlight help messages
abbr --position anywhere -- --help '--help | bat -plhelp'

# Use bat for man pages
set -gx MANPAGER "sh -c 'sed -u -e \"s/\\x1B\[[0-9;]*m//g; s/.\\x08//g\" | bat -p -lman'"

# Make less more usable
set -gx LESS "--ignore-case --no-histdups --color=s+y"
3 changes: 0 additions & 3 deletions fish/conf.d/theme.fish
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Expand Up @@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ function __so_apply_theme --on-variable fish_terminal_color_theme
# Bat and delta both use `BAT_THEME`.
set -gx BAT_THEME "rose-pine-$theme_variant"

# Use Solarized for man pages because Rosé Pine doesn't support man page highlighting.
set -gx MANPAGER "sh -c 'sed -u -e \"s/\\x1B\[[0-9;]*m//g; s/.\\x08//g\" | bat -p -lman --theme \"Solarized ($appearance)\"'"

# delta can detect the background color of the terminal automatically.
#
# But this doesn't work when Delta is embedded in other tools or when its
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