From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jidanni@jidanni.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5566: 23.1.92; man page header ugly on narrow terminals Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:49:00 +0800 Message-ID: <87tytn621v.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265919777 18119 80.91.229.12 (11 Feb 2010 20:22:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: libwww-facebook-api-perl@packages.debian.org, rfrancoise@debian.org, man-db@packages.debian.org To: 5566@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 11 21:22:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NffYq-0004Tf-Ny for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:22:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60913 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NffYq-00073s-4V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:08:30 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:09:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35044 Archived-At: X-debbugs-cc: man-db@packages.debian.org, libwww-facebook-api-perl@packages.debian.org Here is a complicated bug that involves several packages, and produces "WWW::Facebook::API::^HUI^Hsn^Het^Hr..." (^H's visible too) on one's emacs screen. # su - nobody #(LC_ALL=C etc. too.) $ HOME=/tmp emacs-snapshot -nw M-x man WWW::Facebook::API::Intl (from libwww-facebook-api-perl package) on a wide enough terminal, gives a nice WWW::Facebook::API::Intl(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation WWW::Facebook::API::Intl(3pm) however, if the screen is only as wide as the below, this is what one sees: WWW::Facebook::API::^HUI^Hsn^Het^Hrl(^HC3^Hop^Hnm^Ht)^Hributed Perl Docu^H Similarly under X-windows. If one just uses xterm and no emacs, one gets WWW::Facebook::API:UserlContributed Perl DoWWW::Facebook::API::Intl(3pm) which at least doesn't have the visible ^H stuff. $ man -w WWW::Facebook::API::Friends /usr/share/man/man3/WWW::Facebook::API::Friends.3pm.gz where we see the line at question... .TH WWW::Facebook::API::Friends 3pm "2009-11-26" "perl v5.10.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" In GNU Emacs 23.1.92.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.6) of 2010-02-10 on elegiac, modified by Debian (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20100209-1)