@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ html.enable = true;   };
   home.sessionVariables = {
     EMAIL = "alan@alanpearce.eu";
+    MANPAGER = "sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'";
   };
   xdg = {
     enable = true;
@@ -36,6 +37,16 @@ tree_view = 1;       hide_kernel_threads = 1;
       hide_userland_threads = 1;
     };
+  };
+  programs.bat = {
+    enable = true;
+    extraPackages = with pkgs.bat-extras; [
+      batdiff
+      batman
+      batgrep
+      batpipe
+      prettybat
+    ];
   };
   home.packages = with pkgs;
     [

@@ -169,3 +169,8 @@ tere() {   local result=$(command tere "$@")
   [ -n "$result" ] && cd -- "$result"
 }
+
+alias bathelp='bat --plain --language=help'
+help() {
+    "$@" --help 2>&1 | bathelp
+}