tags 340673 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:02:20AM +0100, Robert Luberda wrote:
> On sarge system (with man-db 2.4.2-21)
> man -P less man
> command is equivalent to
> man -P cat man | less
> i.e. the generated pages look exactly the same. That is no longer true
> for man-db 2.4.3-3.
>
> The sid version of the man command strips control characters with `col'
> when stdout is not connected to the terminal. This uglifies output of
> `pinfo -m' and dwww, beacuse they no longer use bold and italic font
> to emphasize some part of manual pages text.
>
> Could you please either revert to the old behaviour or add some commandline
> option which would prevent filtering with 'col' on nontermianls?
I think the new behaviour makes better sense for the common case, but I
have no problem with an option. I made it be an environment variable so
that you can set it (MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1) without compatibility
concerns.
Sun Aug 26 19:40:12 BST 2007 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/man.c (make_roff_command): If MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING is set in
the environment, don't strip formatting characters with col
(Debian bug #340673).
* man/man1/man.man1 (ENVIRONMENT): Document MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING.
* docs/NEWS: Document this.
This will be in man-db 2.4.5 or 2.5.0, whatever I decide to call it.
Sorry for the delay,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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