* "Wu, Yue" <vano...@gmail.com> [2009-09-25 07:49 +0800]: [ ... ] > Also, I don't know how to view the file as a plain text, when I > try to view it by vim, the garbage charactors full-filled with > my screen. > > `less` is ok. Maybe the file contains many control sequences > that vim can't recorgnize but `less` can? If so, then I think > it should be renamed to manual.less or other thing to make it > clear.
There's an explanation to be found in less' man page and Mutt's manual. <http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html#ss2.3> "Also, the internal pager supports a couple other advanced features. For one, it will accept and translate the ``standard'' nroff sequences for bold and underline. These sequences are a series of either the letter, backspace (^H), the letter again for bold or the letter, backspace, ``_'' for denoting underline. ..." You can convert those sequences to regular text using col with its '-b' option. Due to some versions of col's inability to handle UTF-8, the '-p' option may be necessary as well.
