On Tue, Jul 26, 2005, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005, Doug Summers wrote: > >This seems to be platform-independent... > > > >When trying to display OpenPKG man pages most of them work great. Here > >is my output for 'openpkg man gcc": > > > ... > >For rpm it's a scrambled mess: > > > >Red Hat Linux RPM(8) > > > >ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m > > rpm - RPM Package Manager > > > >ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m > > ESC[1mQUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:ESC[0m > > ESC[1mrpm ESC[22m{ESC[1m-q|--queryESC[22m} > >[ESC[1mselect-optionsESC[22m] [ > >ESC[1mquery-optionsESC[22m] > > My SWAG on this is the setting of your PAGER environment variable. I think > the default for OpenPKG is ``less -E -r'' where the -E automatically quits > at the end of the viewing (which I *HATE* and turn off), and the -r seems > to be the trick to get less to view man pages correctly.
I also use the PAGER="less -r..." workaround. But this regularily locks up my xterms, because i'm also used to use less like "strings" - that means i tend to hit "yes", before i think, when it asks me "binary file - display anyway". Never had problems with this in the past (without -r). It would be nice if someone could fix this, so that the "man" command does not generate *STINKIN'* esc sequences. Everybody who uses ESC sequences should be shot ! (mk) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prämotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org