Problem with less's output of man pages after update (ESC ...)
Randall R Schulz
rrschulz@cris.com
Fri Dec 20 08:43:00 GMT 2002
Gary,
Please attach your cygcheck output uncompressed--do not place it in-line in
the body of your problem report.
I wonder why I'm not seeing this symptom? I have groff 1.18.1 and don't
have the MANPAGER environment variable set.
This behavior was reported a few days ago
(<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00820.html> and
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00821.html>). It originates in a
change to the groff package recently released. Chris Faylor supplied the
remedy (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00849.html>):
export MANPAGER='less -R'
I found the messages with a local search for messages containing both "man"
and "escape".
Randall Schulz
At 03:33 2002-12-20, Gary T. Leavens wrote:
>Hi,
>
>When I updated cygwin yesterday, everything works except for the formatting of
>manual pages. When I do
>
>$ man man
>
>I get output that looks like (starting with the third line):
>
>ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>...
>ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
>
>and in general has lots of these ESC codes.
>
>...
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>
> Gary T. Leavens
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>
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