On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 04:15:26PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 08:01:29AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2026-01-10T19:10:44+0000, Gavin Smith wrote: > > > A pretest distribution for the next Texinfo release (7.3) has been > > > uploaded to > > > > > > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.2.90.tar.xz > > > > It appears that, when viewing man pages, info(1) does not filter out > > OSC 8 terminal escape sequences used to embed hyperlink information.[1] > > groff produces these since its 1.23.0 release 2½ years ago.[2] > > > > The less(1) pager interprets OSC 8 sequences since its v581 general > > release[3] almost 5 years ago. > > > > Exhibit attached. > > > > If info cannot interpret these escape sequences, it should discard them. > > > > If info cannot parse these sequences well enough to reliably discard > > them, it should ask man(1) or {g,n}roff(1) not to generate them.
I should add that Info runs on a wide variety of Unix-like systems, not just those using groff or particular versions of "man", so using particular command-line invocations or setting particular environment variables is unlikely to be reliable. For example, you suggested setting MANROFFOPT=-rU0, which looks like an option to be passed to a "roff" program by "man", but the program might not recognise that option, and then you might not get a manpage at all.
