-# use colors when browsing man pages (if not using pinfo or PAGER=most)
- [ -d ~/.terminfo/ ] && alias man='TERMINFO=~/.terminfo/ LESS=C TERM=mostlike PAGER=less man'
+# use colors when browsing man pages, but only if not using LESS_TERMCAP_* from /etc/zsh/zshenv:
+ if [ -z "$LESS_TERMCAP_md" ] ; then
+ [ -d ~/.terminfo/ ] && alias man='TERMINFO=~/.terminfo/ LESS=C TERM=mostlike PAGER=less man'
+ fi