Extraneous characters in mutt text manual?

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Fri Mar 23 12:29:00 GMT 2007


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According to Mark S. Reglewski on 3/23/2007 3:20 AM:
> less /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.2/manual.txt
> 
> I get a display like this:
>   <B7>  ESC[1mset-flag ESC[22m(default: w)

> 
> Does anyone else observe this, or is this a me-only problem?

I'm guessing that you also upgraded man.  There is a known bad interaction
between the current default man settings and the PAGER environment
variable.  A quick search of the list shows this:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-03/msg00086.html

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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