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Re: Escape sequences are not interpreted


Vinod Gupta wrote:
When I look at a man page in a bash window under cygwin, I see that video escape sequences are not interpreted. My TERM is set to "xterm" in an xterm window and "cygwin" in a DOS window. LANG variables are set to en_US. As an example, here are a few lines from the screen dump of "man cygwin"

INTRO(3) Cygwin INTRO(3)

ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
    ESC[1mintro ESC[22m- Introduction to the Cygwin API

ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
ESC[1mCygwin ESC[22mis a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts:
...
...


If I "echo ${ESCSEQ} some-text" then the escape sequence is correctly interpreted. Problem occurs only during man pages.

Any suggestions?


Same as always. Check the email archives.

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg00686.html>

among others...

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