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Re: [Groff] What is the best way to document how to enable SGR codes for
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: [Groff] What is the best way to document how to enable SGR codes for groff's terminal output? |
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Thu, 8 May 2014 22:48:16 +0100 |
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> I suppose the solution is to note that the user should look in the
>> documentation for their installed version of groff, and ask
>> distributions of groff to document it (or reconsider having this
>> variable in the first place).
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> First of all, you should submit a bug report to the affected GNU/Linux
> distribution, complaining that the GROFF_SGR environment variable
> isn't properly documented in a (patched) grotty man page.
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Yes, that's what I thought. I thought I had better run it by this list
in case there was some history or context to this that I wasn't aware
of. Thanks.