On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:37:00PM EDT, Stephane Chazelas wrote: [..] > > Have you experienced anything like this? > [...] > > No. > > What is your pager? > less
[..] Sorry, but I am totally ignorant of both man, groff, etc. and terminfo. > > So, it may be your pager that behaves differently in one case > and the other, but I can't think why. I can see no problem with > either of more, less, most, pg or w3m here. Yes, it's definitely "less" that's having problems formatting the man output. I tried with w3m and most of the formatting problems went away. I also tried with most and the problem was different: control characters were displayed "asis" rather than being interpreted. Now one thing that I had not mentioned earlier is that apart from the 256-color business, I had also enabled UTF-8 by doing two things: 1. changing my locale to en_US.UTF-8 2. running "xterm -u8" I was not sure whether this might have had any undesirable effects where "less" is concerned but since I was having problems with applications that do not support UTF-8 such as elinks and slrn, I have now switched my locale back to en_US and I am back to running a non-UTF-8 xterm. As far as the "less" pager is concerned this does not seem to make any difference. On the other hand man pages are now correctly formated by "most". And I get some nice color highlighting as a bonus. So my options would appear to be: 1. Stick with your terminfo entry and switch my man pager to "most" 2. Use "less" & switch to xterm256-color when I run the man command > Also what is the value of $TERM before you start screen? It is > important that it is xterm-256color so that screen knows the terminal > capabilities. It's definitely TERM=xterm-256color. Thanks, cga _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
