Subject: Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: Elvin Peterson <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:57:11 +0100

Elvin Peterson wrote:

>>>Hello,
>>>    The perl documentation viewed using the
>>> perldoc commands has escape characters inserted into it. 
>>> The same pages view with the man command are OK.  I 
 >>> think this is cygwin specific, so I am posting it here.

>>Not really a problem with perldoc, try:
>>export LESS=R

> The same effect can be achieved with perldoc -t. 

This is textmode only, yep.

> However, the color highlights are gone, so fixing this
> might be worthwhile.

You get highlightingsd when you set LESS=R in your environment.

So what to fix?  It is a feature, not a bug.

Gerrit
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