Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/12/14/18:12:29
On 12/14/06, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Ok, this is useful; it sounds like 'man bash' is in fact leaving the
> bold attribute turned on incorrectly. Aaron, in your case your prompt
> does not clear the attribute; I assume "printf '\033[0m'" fixes things?
It does indeed.
> Does this only happen with the bash manpage, or do you see it with other
> manpages as well?
It seems to vary. I see it with 'man vim' and 'man printf' after the
first screen, for instance, but not with 'man man', unless I pick just
the right line. Which makes it seem less likely that it's a problem
with the man page formatting. In all the cases which cause the
problem, the last bit of text on the screen is highlighted, but it
shouldn't be.
> Btw, what versions of groff and less do you have installed? Also, what
> is the output of 'man -d bash' (just the part after 'not executing
> command:', please)?
less is 381-1, as I listed previously; groff is 1.18.1-2. The output
you're after is, I presume:
(cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/cat
'/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1
-mandoc | /usr/bin/less -isrR)
Interesting. Where does the '.pl 11i' bit come from? It's not in
man.conf...is it hardcoded, or hiding in my environment somewhere?
--
--Alfvaen (Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Dead Can Dance:Aion
Current Book--John Wyndham:The Midwich Cuckoos
Just keep examining every low bid quoted for zinc etchings.
--
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 -