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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
Thanks, Vinod
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