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Re: man produces ESC
- From: "Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <dradul at etb dot net dot co>
- To: "Cygwin Users List" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:58:27 -0500
- Subject: Re: man produces ESC
- Organization: House of Cuckoo
- References: <20031213162939.1BEC67DAFB@server2.messagingengine.com>
El Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:29:39 -0600, B. K. Oxley (binkley)
<binkley@alumni.rice.edu> escribió:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:09:39 -0800 Steve Kelem <s_kelem@pacbell.net>
wrote in <3FC28FB3.6060702@pacbell.net>:
Problem 1:
When I run "man man", all the escape sequences show up in less (version
381):
ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
man - format and display the on=line manual pages
I too have this problem as of Ded 13. Is there some fix I can apply?
This problem makes man almost useless. I pipe through col to help, but
it only does so much.
Strange, that has been fixed for a looong time now... Anyway, short answer:
$ cat > /etc/profile.d/less.sh
LESS=isrR
export LESS
^D
fixes the problem; close your shell and start a new one.
Have you modified /etc/man.config in any way? Groff 1.18 grotty driver
changed its behavior to output SGR codes instead of the old printer
control codes that were incidentally understood by VT-100 and related
terminals; the evident gain is that you can output color codes understood
in a terminal emulator. The less pager can understand such codes if
invoked with the flags shown above; lowly more, btw, does it OOTB. These
same flags are used by man in Cygwin, because they are included in
/etc/man.config: "PAGER=less -isrR" unless you are using a very old man
(more than a year old at the least) or you have broken it yourself :-)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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