It is jq that is suppressing the colours. From the man page o –color-output / -C and –monochrome-output / -M: By default, jq outputs colored JSON if writing to a terminal. You can force it to produce color even if writing to a pipe or a file using -C, and disable color with -M So, … Read more
Pandoc can convert Markdown to groff man pages. This (thanks to nenopera’s comment): pandoc -s -f markdown -t man foo.md | man -l – should do the trick. The -s option tells it to generate proper headers and footers. There may be other markdown-to-*roff converters out there; Pandoc just happens to be the first one … Read more
You can also type command -I while less is running. It toggles case sensitivity for searches.
With n being the line number: ng: Jump to line number n. Default is the start of the file. nG: Jump to line number n. Default is the end of the file. So to go to line number 320123, you would type 320123g. Copy-pasted straight from Wikipedia.