Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:09:31 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <991021977.20031126000931@familiehaase.de> To: "Bob Cunningham" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Fresh cygwin install shows escape sequences (pager problems with man & less) In-Reply-To: <48C5A901DEC33F47B258BA123E11356D09FB6C@socrates.sandel.local> References: <48C5A901DEC33F47B258BA123E11356D09FB6C@socrates.sandel.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Guten Tag Bob Cunningham, am Montag, 24. November 2003 um 22:29 schrieben Sie: BC> On the fresh cygwin install, even before installing ~/.bashrc, BC> when I did "man bash" all the ANSI escape sequences were visible. BC> If I specify "MANPAGER=more", the sequences are interpreted as BC> expected. BC> The problem seems to be with 'less'. It appears less needs to be BC> aliased to 'less -r' for this behavior to go away. Things are OK BC> with man if I set "MANPAGER='less -r'. Or this: export LESS=R BC> Anyone got a spare clue? Any idea why the default installation of BC> 'man' and 'less' are behaving this way after a Monday install, BC> when all was fine last Friday? This problem exists with 'standard' perldoc output a little longer now, about a year or two. Using less -r or export LESS=R does the trick. It was already discussed here and elsewhere. I used to patch the perl sources to use text mode for the perldoc output as it is done on Windows too, but I don't include the patch anymore. Maybe an update of less and the underlying tools would help here more than to fix the symptoms? -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen Gerrit P. Haase mailto:gp@familiehaase.de -- 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/