groff: Add site.tmac to fix man page coloring

aneeshusa · aneeshusa · commit 111b5eb63778 · 2017-07-01T18:58:34.000-07:00
This enables groff to correctly respond to the LESS_TERMCAP_* environment variables, allowing colorized man pages. Patch is taken from Arch Linux; see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33760.
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/groff/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/groff/default.nix
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   postInstall = ''
     rm $doc/share/doc/groff/examples/hdtbl/*color*ps
     find $doc/share/doc/groff/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -e 's/%%CreationDate: .*//'
+    for f in 'man.local' 'mdoc.local'; do
+        cat '${./site.tmac}' >>"$out/share/groff/site-tmac/$f"
+    done
   '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/groff/site.tmac b/pkgs/tools/text/groff/site.tmac
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+.
+.if n \{\
+.  \" Character translations for non-keyboard
+.  \" characters - to make them searchable
+.  if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
+.    char \- \N'45'
+.    char - \N'45'
+.    char ' \N'39'
+.    char \' \N'39'
+.  \}
+.
+.  \" Shut off SGR by default (groff colors)
+.  \" Require GROFF_SGR envvar defined to turn it on
+.  if '\V[GROFF_SGR]'' \
+.    output x X tty: sgr 0
+.\}
