bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)
Gerrit P. Haase
gp@familiehaase.de
Sun Oct 31 20:05:00 GMT 2004
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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