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From: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:52:31 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403180936040.3919@pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7704-Wed17Mar2004210116+0200-eliz@elta.co.il>

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Thanks for the report.

Hi Eli,

thanks for your quick response.

> IIRC, Emacs 21.3 was released before Groff 1.18, so you cannot expect
> it to support this feature.

That's not entirely true. Groff-1.18.tar.gz from the ftp server is dated
"08 Oct 2002" and we use that version since 27 Nov 2002. On the other hand
emacs-21.3.tar.gz from the ftp server is dated "19 Mar 2003". But I agree
that there probably wasn't much time to detect the problem.

> Current Emacs development sources already set GROFF_NO_SGR=1 when they
> run `man'.

Good to know (in particular since man is somewhat disfavoured by FSF).

Is this built into the emacs binary or just in the one place I found:
line 61 of emacs-21.3/lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el?
And would it suffice to modify that file
	'"groff -mandoc -Tascii %s' => '"GROFF_NO_SGR=1 groff -mandoc -Tascii %s'
(and of course recompile gnus-uu.elc)?

I certainly want to fix this little problem before we get emacs-21.4

regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-18  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-17  9:56 Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem Peter Breitenlohner
2004-03-17 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-18  8:52   ` Peter Breitenlohner [this message]
2004-03-18 15:37     ` Reiner Steib
2004-03-18 16:04       ` Peter Breitenlohner
2004-03-18 16:26     ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-19 18:47       ` GROFF_NO_SGR when calling groff (was: Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem) Reiner Steib
2004-03-19 20:02         ` GROFF_NO_SGR when calling groff Werner LEMBERG
2004-03-24 11:15     ` Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem Peter Breitenlohner
2004-03-25  7:06       ` Werner LEMBERG

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