Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:42:16 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars Message-ID: <20040701144216.GD8243@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040701131440.GA124@jade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:55:39AM -0400, geneSmith wrote: >Luc Hermitte wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:14 AM: >>* On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:16AM -0400, geneSmith >> wrote: >> >>>Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages >>>seem to work. >> >> >>I have export PAGER='less -R' in my .bashrc >> >>HTH, > >Oops, I misspoke. It is my rxvt man page that is messed up. I see stuff >like this when I do >man rxvt >I see stuff like this: > > > .YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd .SH "NAME" .YODLTAGEND. rxvt (ouR >XVT) - a VT102 emulator for the X window system.YODLTAGSTART. >roffcmd .PP .YODLTAGEND. > >Setting PAGER does not seem to affect anything for me. > >Anyhow,when I do >alias less="less -R" > >My ls -l | less problem is solved. So, the moral of the story is: "man less". cgf -- 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/