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Re: [Groff] Is SGR b0rken, or am I missing something?
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Robert D. Goulding |
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Re: [Groff] Is SGR b0rken, or am I missing something? |
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Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:32:35 -0500 (EST) |
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Larry Kollar wrote:
> I've noticed that when formatting manpages and other *roff documents
> using:
>
> groff -Tascii -mfoo document.foo | more
>
> That lines with highlighting get wrapped at the end. It was just tonight
> that I realized it was wrapping 6 characters per highlight on/off
> sequence,
> which one might expect if those 3-character sequences were counted as
> part of the line length. Turning it off (-P-c) fixes the wrap problem.
Try adding the option -f to more (or export MORE=-f) - this seems to work.
If you're using less, the equivalent option is (IIRC) -s.
Robert.