At 2022-09-26T15:40:39-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > less interprets b^Hbo^Hol^Hld^Hd by outputting the correct escape
> > sequences for the terminal in use.
>
> No, it doesn't, and cannot, because that representation form is
> ambiguous when the character to be overstruck is an
After 15 years, I recommend closing this bug as "wontfix".
The traditional output mode only makes sense for overstriking terminals,
of which there are vanishingly few that aren't paper terminals, which
are themselves a dead breed.
The virtue of "ANSI escapes" is that they're actually
Package: groff-base
Version: 1.18.1.1-7
Severity: normal
Let's begin with some quotes from grotty(1):
By default, grotty emits SGR escape sequences (from ISO 6429, also
called ANSI color escapes)
...
For SGR support, it is necessary to use the -R option of less(1)
to disable the
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