delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/12/30/10:42:59

Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:42:42 +0100
Lines: 21
Message-ID: <1fe3c43pdt4h8$.dlg@thorstenkampe.de>
References: <3FE88C36 DOT 5030308 AT swcp DOT com> <rahq8wvj5n0u DOT dlg AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org
User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.6.1de

* Thorsten Kampe (2003-12-29 19:48 +0100)
> * Lynn Wilson (2003-12-23 19:40 +0100)
>> It seems that a few months ago the man pages were showing the ESC[1m etc. escape 
>> sequences in a bash shell. The problem was quickly fixed.

>> I downloaded docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1 yesterday and the problem is back.  I also 
>> downloaded a few X-modules.  One of these modules caused the 'man' problem to 
>> re-appear.

> Same with me. Anyone with a solution (because every man page is 
> unreadable). I haven't installed any "X modules".

Got a personal mail referring to a recent thread called "man produces
ESC". My manpager was 'most' (which is no problem on Gentoo Linux).

export LESS=R
export MANPAGER=less

...in your .bashrc/.zshrc fixes the problem.

Thorsten


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019