colorfull_manpages

#http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/Colour_on_the_command_line
#In your .bashrc (which on a good Debian system is included from .bash_profile), add

# For colourful man pages (CLUG-Wiki style)
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[01;32m'