X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45FA10ED.4020604@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:37:17 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Escape sequences are not interpreted References: <45F9CFA5 DOT 1050305 AT princeton DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <45F9CFA5.1050305@princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Vinod Gupta wrote: > When I look at a man page in a bash window under cygwin, I see that > video escape sequences are not interpreted. My TERM is set to "xterm" in > an xterm window and "cygwin" in a DOS window. LANG variables are set to > en_US. As an example, here are a few lines from the screen dump of "man > cygwin" > > INTRO(3) Cygwin > INTRO(3) > > ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m > ESC[1mintro ESC[22m- Introduction to the Cygwin API > > ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m > ESC[1mCygwin ESC[22mis a Linux-like environment for Windows. It > consists of two parts: > ... > ... > > If I "echo ${ESCSEQ} some-text" then the escape sequence is correctly > interpreted. Problem occurs only during man pages. > > Any suggestions? Same as always. Check the email archives. among others... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/