On Sat, 04 Jan 2003, Jeremy Hetzler wrote:
> At 05:03 AM 1/2/2003 -0600, Tommy Butler wrote:
> >Further, perldoc.exe isn't rendering pages correctly since 5.8 either. For
> >example, "$ perldoc UNIVERSAL" produces the following when run from cygwin
> >bash
> > ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
> There was a recent change to less that produced this behavior. Try adding
> the -R switch to $LESS.
That's great. I assumed it was due to the child process
problem that I think was preventing me using perldoc before.
I put export PAGER='/bin/less -R';
in my /etc/profile,
and now I don't have to think about installing an HTML version
anymore ;-)
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