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From: | Alejandro Lopez-Valencia |
Subject: | Re: [Groff] weird ASCII formatting output |
Date: | Fri, 28 May 2004 16:04:11 -0500 |
At 02:55 p.m. 28/05/2004, address@hidden wrote:
When I format the groff 1.19.1 man pages, the output is ugly when viewed on a bog-standard xterm:
This means 'less' is your pager and it needs proper configuration (lowly more does the right thing out of the box). Try using these settings in your startup files: $LESS == '-isrRcex3M', $LESSCHARSET == 'iso8859'. The important bits are 'isrR', the rest make less behave like a civilized more.
If you are using that configurable man provided with most Linuxen, you can add such trickery to /usr/share/misc/man.conf if your system is FHS compliant, or /usr/etc/man.conf otherwise.
When less starts behaving properly, do read grotty(1).
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