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Re: man produces ESC


El Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:29:39 -0600, B. K. Oxley (binkley) <binkley@alumni.rice.edu> escribió:

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:09:39 -0800 Steve Kelem <s_kelem@pacbell.net>
wrote in <3FC28FB3.6060702@pacbell.net>:
Problem 1:
When I run "man man", all the escape sequences show up in less (version 381):
ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
man - format and display the on=line manual pages

I too have this problem as of Ded 13. Is there some fix I can apply? This problem makes man almost useless. I pipe through col to help, but it only does so much.

Strange, that has been fixed for a looong time now... Anyway, short answer:


$ cat > /etc/profile.d/less.sh
LESS=isrR
export LESS
^D

fixes the problem; close your shell and start a new one.

Have you modified /etc/man.config in any way? Groff 1.18 grotty driver changed its behavior to output SGR codes instead of the old printer control codes that were incidentally understood by VT-100 and related terminals; the evident gain is that you can output color codes understood in a terminal emulator. The less pager can understand such codes if invoked with the flags shown above; lowly more, btw, does it OOTB. These same flags are used by man in Cygwin, because they are included in /etc/man.config: "PAGER=less -isrR" unless you are using a very old man (more than a year old at the least) or you have broken it yourself :-)

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