> You don't even have to learn the details of the escape codes with their
> inscrutable syntax an unmemorizable numerical codes.
I'm sorry, \x1B[4;1mwhat?\x1B[24;21m
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 07:55, G. Branden Robinson <
g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At 2020-04-29T17:04:31-0400, James K. L
At 2020-04-29T17:04:31-0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> If I were publishing it, I'd remove the VT100 escape codes, and format
> my if statements without semicolons:
>
> if [ foo ]
> then
> bar
> fi
>
> because that's what Steven Bourne intended. ;-)
I second the
At 2020-04-29T17:04:27-0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> I don't understand how man(1) suppresses pagination. Is there any
> simple trick to viewing -ms documents in nroff without page
> boundaries?
Hi James!
I believe the answer is in an-old.tmac:
.\" We redefine .ne to avoid page breaks if cR is
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:45:46 -0400
Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > Also, wouldn't this script be useful to include in the groff
> > distribution?
>
> I'm inclined to think so, however it contains non-portable bashisms
> and so might not be appropriate. The script was a quick and dirty
> solution to
I don't understand how man(1) suppresses pagination. Is there any
simple trick to viewing -ms documents in nroff without page
boundaries?
I didn't find it in the papersize documentation. Proof that I read
it, I found a typo:
The value of the papersize file can be overrideen
