From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:06:29 +0100 (CET) Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040325.080629.152066039.wl@gnu.org> References: <7704-Wed17Mar2004210116+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080206833 8953 80.91.224.253 (25 Mar 2004 09:27:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:27:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 25 10:27:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B6R8k-0003yO-00 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:27:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6R67-0008Td-83 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6R5i-0008Jr-2J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:23:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B6R5B-00084K-Ai for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:23:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.177] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B6R4a-0007ir-0h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:22:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.155] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1B6R4U-0008Qk-00; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:22:42 +0100 Original-Received: from [62.158.7.203] (helo=orion.univie.ac.at) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1B6R4S-0001CL-00; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 10:22:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.univie.ac.at (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id i2P76TT25003; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:06:29 +0100 Original-To: peb@mppmu.mpg.de In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 4.0.65 on Emacs 21.3.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:2dc398bc694a1e60948148ba0a42c0da X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:7375 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:7375 > As far as I can see there are the following solutions to these > problems: > > (1) You, the emacs developers, convince the groff people to abandon > the whole color escape stuff (hardly realistic). He has tried :-) > (2) You introduce an emacs display option to properly handle color > escapes and use that option when viewing manpages (may be > difficult). This is available already! In ansi-color.el there is a function ansi-color-apply-on-region -- Kai has told me that he will have a look how to integrate this function into the man stuff. It should be straightforward, but, as usual, we lack the manpower to do that quickly. Since a work-around is available, it hasn't too much a priority I fear. Werner