"more" command alternative that does support colors?
This is in my top 10 list of tiny annoying things in Linux. I love colored output in terminals: it's nice to see and useful when reading.

The first thing I do on a new system is to set aliases for both `ls` and `grep` to show colored output, and the second is to install `vim` and `htop`.

I use both Gentoo and Ubuntu, and I see that `emerge`, the package manager of Gentoo, has a higher readability than `apt-get/aptitude` just because it uses way much more color output than the latter.

So, whenever I have to pipe an `emerge` command with `more`, all the color is lost and I have to focus my attention on every line to avoid missing anything important.

I can understand that a basic command such as `more` shouldn't depend on `ncurses` (someone could argue that we also have `less`, so one of the two could be even color-friendly), but why there isn't a _famous_ alternative to `more` that supports colors, as there is for `vi/vim`, `top/htop` etc.?

Thanks for any hint.
"more" command alternative that does support colors?
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This is in my top 10 list of tiny annoying things in Linux. I love colored output in terminals: it's nice to see and useful when reading.

The first thing I do on a new system is to set aliases for both `ls` and `grep` to show colored output, and the second is to install `vim` and `htop`.

I use both Gentoo and Ubuntu, and I see that `emerge`, the package manager of Gentoo, has a higher readability than `apt-get/aptitude` just because it uses way much more color output than the latter.

So, whenever I have to pipe an `emerge` command with `more`, all the color is lost and I have to focus my attention on every line to avoid missing anything important.

I can understand that a basic command such as `more` shouldn't depend on `ncurses` (someone could argue that we also have `less`, so one of the two could be even color-friendly), but why there isn't a _famous_ alternative to `more` that supports colors, as there is for `vi/vim`, `top/htop` etc.?

Thanks for any hint.