Re: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page

[Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Aaron Humphrey wrote on Friday, December 15, 2006 5:34 PM:
> > Oddly enough, it seems to.  In fact, just adding the '-c' option to
> > NROFF in man.conf, without having to remove '-Tlatin' or add the '2>
> > /dev/null' (which I'm not sure would work under tcsh anyway).  

I'm confused; wasn't that (use '-c') what I originally said the solution 
seemed to be?

> > So why do I have to 'revert to the old behaviour of grotty', which is
> > what the nroff -c seems to be doing, before man will bold things
> > properly?  
>
> No idea.  But does it fix the prompt problem?  (Or has that already been
> fixed and I missed it?)

The prompt problem was (AFAICT) caused by man failing to turn off bold 
(at least that's what Aaron apparently confirmed). Anyway, from what I 
can see, '-c' causes a totally different 'style' of output to be 
produced that 'less' understands, which is why this makes the problem go 
away.

Personally, I have never heard of '\e[22' turning off bold. My guess 
would be that the real solution here is to fix the TERMINFO database.

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Matthew
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