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.
Here are some ways to do the last.
1. MANROFFOPT=-rU0 man page-of-interest.1
2. nroff -rU0 -man page-of-interest.1
Regards,
Branden
[1] https://github.com/Alhadis/OSC8-Adoption
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2023-07/msg00001.html
[3] https://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.581.html
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