On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 05:11:42AM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > Well, it does work: > > > > printf 'A\bA_\bB'|ul > > > > I still think it is not useful, I say kill it. > > Oh! Is that how you use it? The man page doesn't explain, apparently expecting > that everybody just knows there's only one true way to mark up text.
It's the same markup groff/mandoc/less/etc use: mandoc /usr/src/usr.bin/ul/ul.1|ul (Although I didn't remember that and did spend a while looking at the code trying to figure it out.) But I don't think ul is terribly useful, you can do it with "more -e".
