Re: Menu: Help -> Manuals -> Read Man Page... problem

[Werner LEMBERG]

> As far as I can see there are the following solutions to these
> problems:
>
> (1) You, the emacs developers, convince the groff people to abandon
> the whole color escape stuff (hardly realistic).

He has tried :-)

> (2) You introduce an emacs display option to properly handle color
> escapes and use that option when viewing manpages (may be
> difficult).

This is available already!  In ansi-color.el there is a function
ansi-color-apply-on-region -- Kai has told me that he will have a look
how to integrate this function into the man stuff.  It should be
straightforward, but, as usual, we lack the manpower to do that
quickly.  Since a work-around is available, it hasn't too much a
priority I fear.


    Werner