Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page

Aaron Humphrey alfvaen@gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 20:50:00 GMT 2006


On 12/14/06, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Aaron Humphrey wrote:
> > It seems to vary.  I see it with 'man vim' and 'man printf' after the
> > first screen, for instance, but not with 'man man', unless I pick just
> > the right line.  Which makes it seem less likely that it's a problem
> > with the man page formatting.  In all the cases which cause the
> > problem, the last bit of text on the screen is highlighted, but it
> > shouldn't be.

> Yes, that sounds right... like either an attribute is not being cleared,
> or even that they are backwards. Um... would this by chance happen any
> time a bold word gets hyphenated? (Just a WAG.)

It doesn't seem to.  If I do "man bash", then the whole DESCRIPTION
section is highlighted.  From Linux, it looks like only the
keywords(bash, sh, ksh) are supposed to be highlighted.  (I note that
there, it uses '-Tascii' instead of '-Tlatin'.)

> But... I only have man-1.5p. Maybe 'man' is the problem?

I could try downgrading.  I don't use man that much, so I don't know
when it started doing this.

> > The output you're after is, I presume:
> >
> >  (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/cat
> > '/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1
> > -mandoc | /usr/bin/less -isrR)

> Hmm. What happens if you enter exactly that, but 's/-Tlatin1/-c/'? (Did
> you say you are using WCLI*/rxvt/xterm...?)

WCLI*.

If I type

(echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/cat '/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1') |
/usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | /usr/bin/less -isrR)

then I get the same behaviour.  Editing man.conf doesn't make any
difference, either, nor does substituting '-Tascii'.  Even if I exit
tcsh and restart it.

BTW, TERM = 'cygwin'.  Anything other info I can provide?  Output of
"stty -a"?  My entire cygcheck.out?  Screenshots?  Straces?  Bueller?

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