Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Robert McNulty Junior" To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" , Subject: RE: Problem about man-1.5m2 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:56:18 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Gary, dude. That straighten out my man(ual) problems too. Thanks. Robert -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:36 PM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Problem about man-1.5m2 > >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Buchbinder writes: > > Barry> I found the same thing and 2 other problems > Barry> (1) If the environmental variable LESS is set, it > overrides the PAGER > Barry> setting in man.conf. > > Barry> (2) Large chunks of text can be incorrectly made bold. > > Barry> Not wanting to have to choose between less working the way > I want and man > Barry> working properly, I I've rolled back to ver 1.5j-2. > > Can you try what happens with the following two lines in > /usr/share/misc/man.conf. > > NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc > PAGER /usr/bin/less -isrR > That fixes it for me. And now for my obligatory Unix rant: I've never, not once, in all my many years on this Earth, had to dink with a file somewhere that I didn't even know existed to get Windows' help systems to NOT PRINT "ESC" WHEN IT SEES A FORMATTING CHARACTER. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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/ -- 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/