From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:01:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7704-Wed17Mar2004210116+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403170956.i2H9uaPf029906@pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de> (message from Peter Breitenlohner on Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:56:36 +0100)
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:56:36 +0100
> From: Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
>
> 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.
Thanks for the report.
IIRC, Emacs 21.3 was released before Groff 1.18, so you cannot expect
it to support this feature.
Current Emacs development sources already set GROFF_NO_SGR=1 when they
run `man'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-17 19:01 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 [this message]
2004-03-18 8:52 ` Peter Breitenlohner
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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