Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/11/25/17:57:43
Well, this wasn't happening on a full Friday install, and it started happening on a full Monday install. On completely different systems, both of which had a fresh install of Win2K.
So this behavior is due to a VERY recent change to the cygwin install.
-BobC
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:gp AT familiehaase DOT de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:10 PM
To: Bob Cunningham
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Fresh cygwin install shows escape sequences (pager problems
with man & less)
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 AT familiehaase DOT de
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