Escape sequences are not interpreted

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

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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