On 2007-03-15 23:46, Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Vinod Gupta wrote:When I look at a man page in a bash window under cygwin, I see that video escape sequences are not interpreted. My TERM is set to "xterm" in an xterm window and "cygwin" in a DOS window. LANG variables are set to en_US. As an example, here are a few lines from the screen dump of "man cygwin" INTRO(3) Cygwin INTRO(3) ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m ESC[1mintro ESC[22m- Introduction to the Cygwin API ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m ESC[1mCygwin ESC[22mis a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: ... ... If I "echo ${ESCSEQ} some-text" then the escape sequence is correctly interpreted. Problem occurs only during man pages. Any suggestions?Sure. A Google search for "cygwin man esc" produces quite a few hits with a fix for this. In particular, the most recent suggestions are to check the values of PAGER and MANPAGER (which we would have seen had you followed
My PAGER variable was set to "less" I have changed it to "less -r" that fixed the problem.
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