title: "more" command alternative that does support colors?
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>The first thing I do on a new system is to set aliases for both <code>ls</code> and <code>grep</code> to show colored output, and the second is to install <code>vim</code> and <code>htop</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I use both Gentoo and Ubuntu, and I see that <code>emerge</code>, the package manager of Gentoo, has a higher readability than <code>apt-get/aptitude</code> just because it uses way much more color output than the latter.</p>
  
  <p>So, whenever I have to pipe an <code>emerge</code> command with <code>more</code>, all the color is lost and I have to focus my attention on every line to avoid missing anything important.</p>
  
  <p>I can understand that a basic command such as <code>more</code> shouldn't depend on <code>ncurses</code> (someone could argue that we also have <code>less</code>, so one of the two could be even color-friendly), but why there isn't a <em>famous</em> alternative to <code>more</code> that supports colors, as there is for <code>vi/vim</code>, <code>top/htop</code> etc.?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any hint.</p>