colorit1

Usage

Overview

colorit is a script for markuping text input and sending a result to pager ( less -r by default) or stdout. Markuping rules are described in a configuration file which is filtered by preprocessor (the default is m4 ). The define HOME equal to your home directory is set for the preprocessor using -D option supported by both m4 and cpp. This script can be used for colorizing the text by ANSI escape sequences, or making a simple text conversions and 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.

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 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 mark command is available having the following arguments: regexp pre_string post_string
The pre_string and post_string are inserted at the beginning and the end of substring matched by regular expression regexp