From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [lurwas@moya.dnsalias.net: groff version 1.18.1 and emacs] Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 10:47:53 +0100 (CET) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021205.104753.76765943.wl@gnu.org> References: <20021204.135516.82043726.wl@gnu.org> <200212042020.gB4KKWu25400@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039090902 22872 80.91.224.249 (5 Dec 2002 12:21:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:21:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Jv0c-0005wb-00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:21:38 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Jv8k-0001xq-00 for ; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:30:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JuvG-0001JY-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 07:16:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Juv0-0001I2-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 07:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Juux-0001Gj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 07:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Juuw-0001G2-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 07:15:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.161] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18Juuu-0000OQ-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:15:44 +0100 Original-Received: from [62.227.228.184] (helo=orion.local) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 18Juus-0005UO-00; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 13:15:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.local (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id gB59lrl21084; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 10:47:53 +0100 Original-To: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu In-Reply-To: <200212042020.gB4KKWu25400@rum.cs.yale.edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.1 on Emacs 21.3.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9879 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9879 > > The easiest way currently is to use `setenv' and set the > > environment variable GROFF_NO_SGR to 1 (within Emacs) in case the > > man program hasn't been configured already to not use SGR. The > > proper way is to make Emacs understand SGR escape sequences. > > Why does nroff use SGR when outputting to Emacs? In newer versions of groff there is an option `-c' for nroff to not use SGR. This is not yet supported in Emacs. But for this particular problem it doesn't help since Emacs uses the `man' program for formatting man pages. Werner