From: Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:37:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v9wu5i5fq9.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403180936040.3919@pcl321.mppmu.mpg.de> (Peter Breitenlohner's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:52:31 +0100 (CET)")
On Thu, Mar 18 2004, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
[...]
>> Current Emacs development sources already set GROFF_NO_SGR=1 when they
>> run `man'.
[...]
> Is this built into the emacs binary or just in the one place I found:
> line 61 of emacs-21.3/lisp/gnus/gnus-uu.el?
I think the correct place is `lisp/man.el'. You can apply the
following patch. If it works (I cannot check myself), can someone
apply this patch to the EMACS_21_1_RC branch, please?
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- man.el.~1.108.4.2.~ Wed Oct 16 01:03:28 2002
+++ man.el Thu Mar 18 16:20:26 2004
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
;;; man.el --- browse UNIX manual pages
-;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Barry A. Warsaw <bwarsaw@cen.com>
;; Maintainer: FSF
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
;; footer). A different algorithm should be used. It is easy to
;; compute how many blank lines there are before and after the page
;; headers, and after the page footer. But it is possible to compute
-;; the number of blank lines before the page footer by euristhics
+;; the number of blank lines before the page footer by heuristics
;; only. Is it worth doing?
;; - Allow a user option to mean that all the manpages should go in
;; the same buffer, where they can be browsed with M-n and M-p.
@@ -613,6 +613,7 @@
;; the page will actually be displayed, but it seems
;; reasonable.
(setenv "COLUMNS" (number-to-string (frame-width)))))
+ (setenv "GROFF_NO_SGR" "1")
(if (fboundp 'start-process)
(set-process-sentinel
(start-process manual-program buffer "sh" "-c"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
For the ChangeLog:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
2004-03-18 Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
* man.el (Man-getpage-in-background): Set GROFF_NO_SGR.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> And would it suffice to modify that file
> '"groff -mandoc -Tascii %s' => '"GROFF_NO_SGR=1 groff -mandoc -Tascii %s'
> (and of course recompile gnus-uu.elc)?
This is only for viewing uuencoded attached man page sources in Gnus,
AFAICS.
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-18 15:37 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
2004-03-18 8:52 ` Peter Breitenlohner
2004-03-18 15:37 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
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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