From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: GROFF_NO_SGR when calling groff (was: Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:47:31 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200403170956.i2H9uaPf029906@pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de> <7704-Wed17Mar2004210116+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <2914-Thu18Mar2004182628+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079722187 2713 80.91.224.253 (19 Mar 2004 18:49:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 19 19:49:37 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 1B4P3o-0001Si-01 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:49:37 +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 1B4P3m-0005Bf-DN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:49:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B4P3J-0004va-PS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:49:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B4P2b-0004Kh-54 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:48:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [134.60.10.173] (helo=lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B4P1t-0003gO-LK; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:47:37 -0500 Original-Received: by lumberjack.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix, from userid 170) id C858118143; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:47:31 +0100 (CET) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.; yo.b yq4$p; ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) 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:7323 gmane.emacs.devel:20623 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:7323 On Thu, Mar 18 2004, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> > Current Emacs development sources already set GROFF_NO_SGR=1 when they >> > run `man'. [...] > (setenv "GROFF_NO_SGR" "1") > (if (fboundp 'start-process) > (set-process-sentinel > (start-process manual-program buffer "sh" "-c" > (format (Man-build-man-command) man-args)) > 'Man-bgproc-sentinel) Wouldn't it make sense to _use_ the SGR control sequences by applying `ansi-color-apply-on-region' (from `ansi-color.el') on the output buffer instead of suppressing them? I don't have groff >= 1.18 here so I dunno if it would work nicely. [ Probably this should be discussed on emacs-devel. -> Added along with Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org ] Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- PGP key available via WWW http://rsteib.home.pages.de/