Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)

[Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson at yahoo dot com>]

--- "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de> wrote:

> Elvin Peterson wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >     The perl documentation viewed using the
> perldoc
> > commands has escape characters inserted into it. 
> The
> > same pages view with the man command are OK.  I
> think
> > this is cygwin specific, so I am posting it here.
> 
> Not really a problem with perldoc, try:
> export LESS=R
> 

The same effect can be achieved with perldoc -t. 
However, the color highlights are gone, so fixing this
might be worthwhile.

Thanks for the reply.

> Gerrit
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