Aaron Humphrey wrote on Friday, December 15, 2006 5:34 PM: > On 12/15/06, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> I'm wondering whether this might be related to this old problem. >> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00734.html >> I was having man pages where bold was not turn off properly. If I >> remember correctly, this suggestion fixed it for me. >> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00552.html >> May it would fix one or both problems. > > Oddly enough, it seems to. In fact, just adding the '-c' option to > NROFF in man.conf, without having to remove '-Tlatin' or add the '2> > /dev/null' (which I'm not sure would work under tcsh anyway). > That is, man stops bolding too many things, and it turns off properly > when I exit. > > So why do I have to 'revert to the old behaviour of grotty', which is > what the nroff -c seems to be doing, before man will bold things > properly?
No idea. But does it fix the prompt problem? (Or has that already been fixed and I missed it?) -- 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/
