Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page

Aaron Humphrey alfvaen@gmail.com
Mon Dec 18 23:01:00 GMT 2006


On 12/15/06, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Aaron Humphrey wrote on Friday, December 15, 2006 5:34 PM:
> > Oddly enough, it seems to.  In fact, just adding the '-c' option to
> > NROFF in man.conf, without having to remove '-Tlatin' or add the '2>
> > /dev/null' (which I'm not sure would work under tcsh anyway).
> > That is, man stops bolding too many things, and it turns off properly
> > when I exit.

> > So why do I have to 'revert to the old behaviour of grotty', which is
> > what the nroff -c seems to be doing, before man will bold things
> > properly?

> No idea.  But does it fix the prompt problem?  (Or has that already been
> fixed and I missed it?)

Yes, running man with -c in the NROFF options no longer leaves
text bolded after man exits, if that's the prompt problem you're
talking about.  (Though it affects the text typed after the prompt,
not just the prompt itself...)

--
 --Alfvaen (Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
 Current Album--Eight Seconds:Almacantar
 Current Book--John Wyndham:The Midwich Cuckoos
 Gone crazy, be back later. Leave a message.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/



More information about the Cygwin mailing list