Re: Problem with man pages

[Werner LEMBERG]

> It looks like the ansi codes that turn highlighting on, etc. don't
> work.  In less, I see things like:
> 
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>        groff - front-end for the groff document formatting system
> 
> ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
> 
> The strange thing is that I think that these are the correct codes.
> In addition, if I use tkman to look at the pages, these don't get
> filtered out (I think they should).  Everything worked until
> yestereday, when I upgraded form 1.17.

You need the -R option of less, as documented in the NEWS file.
Additionally, you should use a rather recent version of less since
older ones are buggy w.r.t. SGR handling.  Alternatively, set the
GROFF_NO_SGR environment variable to revert to the old behaviour
(without colors, of course).


    Werner