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Fresh cygwin install shows escape sequences (pager problems with man & less)
- From: "Bob Cunningham" <bcunningham at sandel dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:29:23 -0800
- Subject: Fresh cygwin install shows escape sequences (pager problems with man & less)
I just did a full (100%) cygwin install on a fresh Win2K system. (Well, this is actually the third time: I had two HDs crash Friday.)
On the fresh cygwin install, even before installing ~/.bashrc, when I did "man bash" all the ANSI escape sequences were visible. If I specify "MANPAGER=more", the sequences are interpreted as expected.
The problem seems to be with 'less'. It appears less needs to be aliased to 'less -r' for this behavior to go away. Things are OK with man if I set "MANPAGER='less -r'.
Anyone got a spare clue? Any idea why the default installation of 'man' and 'less' are behaving this way after a Monday install, when all was fine last Friday?
After crashing two hard disks in the same day, I could be cursed...
-BobC
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