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Re: Fresh cygwin install shows escape sequences (pager problems with man & less)
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: "Bob Cunningham" <bcunningham at sandel dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:09:31 +0100
- Subject: Re: Fresh cygwin install shows escape sequences (pager problems with man & less)
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <48C5A901DEC33F47B258BA123E11356D09FB6C@socrates.sandel.local>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
Guten Tag Bob Cunningham,
am Montag, 24. November 2003 um 22:29 schrieben Sie:
BC> On the fresh cygwin install, even before installing ~/.bashrc,
BC> when I did "man bash" all the ANSI escape sequences were visible.
BC> If I specify "MANPAGER=more", the sequences are interpreted as
BC> expected.
BC> The problem seems to be with 'less'. It appears less needs to be
BC> aliased to 'less -r' for this behavior to go away. Things are OK
BC> with man if I set "MANPAGER='less -r'.
Or this:
export LESS=R
BC> Anyone got a spare clue? Any idea why the default installation of
BC> 'man' and 'less' are behaving this way after a Monday install,
BC> when all was fine last Friday?
This problem exists with 'standard' perldoc output a little longer
now, about a year or two. Using less -r or export LESS=R does the
trick. It was already discussed here and elsewhere. I used to patch
the perl sources to use text mode for the perldoc output as it is done
on Windows too, but I don't include the patch anymore. Maybe an
update of less and the underlying tools would help here more than to
fix the symptoms?
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Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Gerrit P. Haase
mailto:gp@familiehaase.de
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