Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>]

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. 

This is textmode only, yep.

> However, the color highlights are gone, so fixing this
> might be worthwhile.

You get highlightingsd when you set LESS=R in your environment.

So what to fix?  It is a feature, not a bug.


Gerrit
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