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From: Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu
Subject: Re: [lurwas@moya.dnsalias.net: groff version 1.18.1 and emacs]
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 17:35:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87n0nh3hy0.fsf@emacswiki.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021207.165828.63102220.wl@gnu.org> (Werner LEMBERG's message of "Sat, 07 Dec 2002 16:58:28 +0100 (CET)")

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

>> > > Should the `man' program pass `-c' to nroff?
>> > 
>> > I don't think so.  Making Emacs understand SGR is much better.
>> 
>> I agree, but I also think that if TERM refers to a terminal that
>> does not understand SGR, then man or groff should notice it
>> and make sure that SGR codes are not generated.
>
> groff is as dumb as TeX.  It knows nothing about TERM.  I won't change
> that.

Well, it still looks like a bug in groff or man that ought to be fixed
upstream.  As for teaching Emacs about SGR -- we can use ansi-color.el
to do the right thing.  At least it works in shell mode...  :)

Alex.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-07 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E18JXMq-0003vX-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2002-12-04 12:55 ` [lurwas@moya.dnsalias.net: groff version 1.18.1 and emacs] Werner LEMBERG
2002-12-04 20:20   ` Stefan Monnier
2002-12-05  9:47     ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-12-06 13:32       ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-06 22:19         ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-12-06 22:55           ` Stefan Monnier
2002-12-07 15:58             ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-12-07 16:35               ` Alex Schroeder [this message]
2002-12-09 16:12               ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]           ` <E18LCzH-0004Jz-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
2002-12-09  7:17             ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-12-09 19:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-12-10 20:57                 ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-12-06 13:31   ` Richard Stallman
2002-12-06 22:26     ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-12-07  0:13       ` Alan Shutko
2002-12-07 18:59       ` Eli Zaretskii

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