Re: [Groff] pic and nroff

[Joerg van den Hoff]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:27:02AM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > Can you file a bug report to the xterm people?
> 
> I don't think it's a bug in xterm.  Nroff emits <ESC>[40m codes,
> which normally means "set background color to black", and this
> is exactly what xterm is doing.
> 
> Pipe the output through "sed -e 's/40m/41m/g'" before viewing
> (this changes the background from black to red) to illustrate
> this.
> 

thanks. did'nt know enough about the escape sequences to see that myself.
that, too, makes it more understandable that the other terminal emulators
just behaved the same (except, seemingly, werner's kde `konsole'?).

so, that's back to square one, then? is it a bug in grotty? werner?


joerg