BATMAN(1)                   General Commands Manual                  BATMAN(1)

NAME
       batman - Read system manual pages (man) using bat as the manual page
       formatter.

DESCRIPTION
       Gone are the days of losing your place while reading through monotone
       manual pages. With bat and batman, you can read man ifconfig with
       beautiful 24-bit color and syntax higlighting.

       If you have fzf installed, you can even use batman to search through
       manual pages!

USAGE
           batman [SECTION] [ENTRY]

ENVIRONMENT

       +----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
       | Variable |                                            Description                                             |
       +----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
       |          |                                                                                                    |
       |          |                                                                                                    |
       | MANPAGER | Changes the pager used for batman. This is treated like BAT_PAGER, but only affects this command.  |
       +----------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

CUSTOMIZATION
   Changing the Theme
       You can change the syntax highlighting theme for batman by setting the
       BAT_THEME environment variable before calling batman. The following
       wrapper function will change the theme to Solarized (dark) without
       affecting any other bat command.

       bash
       batman() {
           BAT_THEME="Solarized (dark)" batman "$@"
           return $?
       }

CAVEATS
       Flags aren't highlighted:

       - This happens when you change bat's theme through bat's config file or
       the BAT_THEME environment variable. Not all themes provide colours for
       flags, and it's a known issue.
       - You can overriding the theme for batman by wrapping it in a function
       that sets BAT_THEME.
       - The following themes support manpage highlighting:
         - Monokai Extended / Monokai Extended Light
         - Solarized (dark) / Solarized (light)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
       Thanks to @sharkdp and @LunarLambda for debugging how to make this work
       properly in certain environments.

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