Hi Anton, At 2023-11-21T11:36:09+0300, Anton Shepelev wrote: > G. Branden Robinson to Anton Shepelev: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312935 [...] > > 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.
This is an excellent distillation of my lengthy deconstruction of that guy's own undisciplined rant. I appreciate you expressing it so economically. Regards, Branden
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