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List:       ast-users
Subject:    Re: [ast-users] break up ksh.1?
From:       Norman Ramsey <nr () cs ! tufts ! edu>
Date:       2008-10-18 22:32:34
Message-ID: 20081018223234.78273C06E () jindo ! eecs ! harvard ! edu
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 > The --man option provides terminal-specific highlighting sequences
 > directly. The less command can't interpret these terminal-specific
 > sequences, and displays garbage instead. 

Thanks; that's useful, as is the nroff path.

 > So, if your using the --man option, don't pipe the output through
 > less. You'll see the highlighting just fine, and you can use your
 > terminal window's scrollbar (or maybe even your page up/page down
 > keys, depending on how your terminal window works) to move through
 > the text.

I depend on less heavily for search and highlighting.
I'm sure if I were using a nice terminal emulator written by Rob Pike
this would be a nonissue, but I'm not...


Norman

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