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Re: [Groff] Re: new grotty format


From: Robert D. Goulding
Subject: Re: [Groff] Re: new grotty format
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:36:02 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote:

> I've just tested SGR output for man pages with a few of Debian's pagers.
> 'less' is largely OK, since I've altered man to append -R to $LESS.
> 'most' displays the escape sequences in full (e.g. "^[[1m"), and I don't
> see a way to change this. The venerable 'more' gets the colours right,
> but evidently counts the columns wrongly; its word-wrapping of the
> display is a mess.

This can be fixed by invoking more -f (or setenv MORE -f)


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