From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Breitenlohner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:56:36 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200403170956.i2H9uaPf029906@pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1079518297 4593 80.91.224.253 (17 Mar 2004 10:11:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: peb@mppmu.mpg.de Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 17 11:11:27 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 1B3Y1H-0001MT-00 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:11:27 +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 1B3Y0Z-0008IA-Vy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3Xyv-0007VP-6Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:09:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B3XyB-0007EZ-GU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [134.107.24.11] (helo=mail.mppmu.mpg.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3XnF-0004i9-95 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 04:56:57 -0500 Original-Received: by mail.mppmu.mpg.de (Postfix, from userid 1111) id 46B79BDCA; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:56:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de (pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de [134.107.3.54]) by mail.mppmu.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B04BD54; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:56:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i2H9ui5p029914; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:56:44 +0100 Original-Received: (from peb@localhost) by pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id i2H9uaPf029906; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:56:36 +0100 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:7297 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:7297 This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2004-02-24 on pcl321 configured using `configure ix86-linux-gnulibc2 --prefix=/usr/local' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: If I use the emacs menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... to view a unix manpage I get bad output. The reason is, that since groff-1.18.1 the output from 'groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc' contains SRG escape sequences (ISO 6429, or ANSI color escapes) that emacs doesn't display properly. The same problem occured with xman from XFree86-4.3.0 (and maybe earlier). There the solution was to invoke groff with a suitable environment variable: GROFF_NO_SGR= groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc The alternative to invoke groff with '-c' is not viable because (1) that flag is not understood by groff-1.17.x and (2) even for groff-1.18.1 seems not to work as advertised. regards Peter Breitenlohner Recent input: Recent messages: (emacs) Loading tool-bar...done Loading image...done Loading tooltip...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading man...done if: No man args given Loading emacsbug...done