G. Branden Robinson to Anton Shepelev: > > I wonder what Debian user or developer dis- > > liked those SGR sequences emitted by groff... > > Well, here's one of them. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312935 > > ...with my lengthy rebuttal and defense of groff's > behavior. > > The more I learned, the more I realized just how > wrong that guy was.
I have read it and agree with you. `grotty' is not an appendix to a pager, but a program for printing direct to the terminal. Most terminals support those basic ANSI control sequences, and many console programs freely use them. If a pager cannot trans- parently forward them to the terminal, it is a prob- lem of the pager, not of `grotty', and having a bro- ken -man configuration by default to just to appease `less' is stupid.
