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Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:35:45 -0800
- Subject: Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <20041031190722.92696.qmail@web52202.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Elvin Peterson wrote:
> I don't get any color highlighting when I use LESS=R,
> but as I said in another post, perldoc didn't have
> highlighting to begin with. Does anyone here get
> color in the terminal for, say, perldoc CPAN? As it
> is, I am using man for everything except perldoc -f.
perldoc works fine, has full highlighting/bolding support but you have
to configure less to show the escape codes. Try "export LESS=-R". Not
just R. There is a minus in front of it. Just like it says in the
README.
Brian
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