config-help pipes the manual through bat, which dims the backticks and
leaves the span content the same colour as the prose around it -- so a
delimiter carried no information and every span cost the reader two
literal characters. 1236 of them across the document.
Each span is now rendered bold and the delimiters dropped, in every
branch of the viewer chain:
- ov + bat, and ov alone, style the spans (bat's output wraps each
backtick in its own SGR sequence; raw Markdown is matched directly)
- bat alone flattens them on the way in instead, because bat escapes
any SGR sequence handed to it as input
- less and cat style them, less gaining -R to render the result
- man -l needs nothing; pandoc consumed the backticks at build time
Both substitutions are line-preserving, so the tail-slice that opens
the pager on a requested section still lands on it.
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