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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:35:45 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
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Subject: Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)
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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

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