On 12/14/06, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Ok, this is useful; it sounds like 'man bash' is in fact leaving the bold attribute turned on incorrectly. Aaron, in your case your prompt does not clear the attribute; I assume "printf '\033[0m'" fixes things?
It does indeed.
Does this only happen with the bash manpage, or do you see it with other manpages as well?
It seems to vary. I see it with 'man vim' and 'man printf' after the first screen, for instance, but not with 'man man', unless I pick just the right line. Which makes it seem less likely that it's a problem with the man page formatting. In all the cases which cause the problem, the last bit of text on the screen is highlighted, but it shouldn't be.
Btw, what versions of groff and less do you have installed? Also, what is the output of 'man -d bash' (just the part after 'not executing command:', please)?
less is 381-1, as I listed previously; groff is 1.18.1-2. The output you're after is, I presume: (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/cat '/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc | /usr/bin/less -isrR) Interesting. Where does the '.pl 11i' bit come from? It's not in man.conf...is it hardcoded, or hiding in my environment somewhere? -- --Alfvaen (Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ ) Current Album--Dead Can Dance:Aion Current Book--John Wyndham:The Midwich Cuckoos Just keep examining every low bid quoted for zinc etchings. -- 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/
