Well, it does work: printf 'A\bA_\bB'|ul
I still think it is not useful, I say kill it. On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 03:47:56AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > ul appears somewhat useless for its intended purpose. > > echo _xxx_ | ul does not result in underlined text in an xterm, so I doubt > many people are using this. > > Unlike, say, mandoc, it can't output Greek letters. I also imagine most people > have moved on to some form of markdown for their other text markup needs. > > Will anyone miss it? > > > Index: Makefile > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/Makefile,v > retrieving revision 1.153 > diff -u -p -r1.153 Makefile > --- Makefile 16 Jul 2015 20:50:40 -0000 1.153 > +++ Makefile 23 Oct 2015 07:43:25 -0000 > @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SUBDIR= apply arch at aucat audioctl awk > sort spell split sqlite3 ssh stat su systat \ > tail talk tcpbench tee telnet tftp tic time \ > tmux top touch tput tr true tset tsort tty usbhidaction usbhidctl \ > - ul uname unexpand unifdef uniq units \ > + uname unexpand unifdef uniq units \ > unvis users uudecode uuencode vacation vi vis vmstat w wall wc \ > what which who whois write x99token xargs xinstall \ > yacc yes >
