bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Sun Oct 31 22:20:00 GMT 2004
Elvin Peterson wrote:
> I don't get any color highlighting when I use LESS=R,
> but as I said in another post, perldoc didn't have
> highlighting to begin with. Does anyone here get
> color in the terminal for, say, perldoc CPAN? As it
> is, I am using man for everything except perldoc -f.
perldoc works fine, has full highlighting/bolding support but you have
to configure less to show the escape codes. Try "export LESS=-R". Not
just R. There is a minus in front of it. Just like it says in the
README.
Brian
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