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: <41855AB1.74C726CF@dessent.net> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:35:45 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output) References: <20041031190722 DOT 92696 DOT qmail AT web52202 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Elvin Peterson wrote: > I don't get any color highlighting when I use LESS=R, > but as I said in another post, perldoc didn't have > highlighting to begin with. Does anyone here get > color in the terminal for, say, perldoc CPAN? As it > is, I am using man for everything except perldoc -f. perldoc works fine, has full highlighting/bolding support but you have to configure less to show the escape codes. Try "export LESS=-R". Not just R. There is a minus in front of it. Just like it says in the README. Brian -- 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/