Elvin Peterson wrote:

Hello,
The perl documentation viewed using the
perldoc commands has escape characters inserted into it. The same pages view with the man command are OK. I
>>> think this is cygwin specific, so I am posting it here.

Not really a problem with perldoc, try:
export LESS=R

The same effect can be achieved with perldoc -t.

This is textmode only, yep.

However, the color highlights are gone, so fixing this
might be worthwhile.

You get highlightingsd when you set LESS=R in your environment.

So what to fix?  It is a feature, not a bug.


Gerrit -- =^..^=

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