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Replace the default `man` pager with something with a bit more bling

This article follows up on my previous blog post on improving the experience of digging through the documentation of command line interface tools. By default, it is set to the less pager, which doesn’t provide the best user experience due to its lack of proper syntax highlighting. The-pp flag disables the paging option and prints the entire file, making bat function exactly like cat.

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