Re: [Groff] SGR escape sequences as tty default

[P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 05:07 p.m. 08/03/2002 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > *Sigh! I probably did a useless rant. I figured out how to fix man's
> > configuration pretty quick. Yet, I do have a concern, most vendor
> > unices pager is 'more', no 'less'. And you can betcha 'more' can't
> > grok SGR codes.  And my concern about terminal emulators and,
> > additionally, curses libaries, stands.
>
> Just curious: You *have* read the NEWS file, haven't you?  Setting the
> GROFF_NO_SGR environment variable is really easy.


Yes, but the news didn't sink in the first time I read it. :( I skimmed 
through it too fast. ;)

Nevertheless, I do believe this should be handled differently, say, all the 
options like PAPER, BROKEN_SPOOLER_FLAGS, PSPRINT, GROFF_NO_SGR and such 
should be autoconf flags.

I'll use the weekend to explore this further and submit a patch.

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