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 Message-ID: <41853587.808@familiehaase.de> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:57:11 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; de-AT; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Elvin Peterson CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output) References: <20041031182539 DOT 93684 DOT qmail AT web52203 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20041031182539.93684.qmail@web52203.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -- =^..^= -- 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/