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Re: Escape sequences are not interpreted


On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, 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?

Sure.  A Google search for "cygwin man esc" produces quite a few hits with
a fix for this.  In particular, the most recent suggestions are to check
the values of PAGER and MANPAGER (which we would have seen had you
followed

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

and attached the output of "cygcheck -svr" for your system).
HTH,
	Igor
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