Aaron Humphrey wrote:
On 12/14/06, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
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.
Yes, that sounds right... like either an attribute is not being cleared,
or even that they are backwards. Um... would this by chance happen any
time a bold word gets hyphenated? (Just a WAG.)
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;
Sorry, missed that...
groff is 1.18.1-2.
Ok, same as me.
But... I only have man-1.5p. Maybe 'man' is the problem?
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)
Hmm. What happens if you enter exactly that, but 's/-Tlatin1/-c/'? (Did
you say you are using WCLI*/rxvt/xterm...?)
HEY! If I do likewise but making the opposite substitution, mine breaks!
It looks like '-Tlatin1' is the problem. IIRC you can fix this by
editing man.conf, but we need to either change it back in the official
package or figure out why it is breaking. (I'm using Console, which is
effectively WCLI).
(* WCLI = Windows Command Line Interface, i.e. 'the DOS window')
Interesting. Where does the '.pl 11i' bit come from? It's not in
man.conf...is it hardcoded, or hiding in my environment somewhere?
Might be hard-coded, there are a few things like that. Line length, for
instance, if your screen is not 80 columns.
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Matthew
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