Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:58:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com> To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Annoying reverse hylighting in `more' 4.0-STsnap0624 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006261448490.375-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com> In-Reply-To: <m21z1kxmmr.fsf@reader.ptw.com>
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Actually, this highlighting is not random; what you are seeing highlighted
is what the original man page put in italic. Notice that, in both your
examples, the parts of the "SYNOPSIS" section which were highlighted are
the WORDS (not lists of option letters) which specify a category for what
should be typed there ("cmd" for a command, etc.). In the Emacs man page
sample you sent, "GNU Emacs" is highlighted in the man page's source
exactly where you see it highlighted in your display, and the highlighting
of Emacs only at the beginning of the paragraph, as well as the
non-highlighting of spaces between GNU and Emacs, are results of the way
the page was written.
So the issue boils down to whether you want to see italic as
highlighting. If not, I'm sure there's a way to prevent it. I'm using
TERM=vt102, and I don't see any highlighting at all.
--
Doug Lee
dgl@visi.com
http://www.visi.com/~dgl
On 26 Jun 2000, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 07:51:31AM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > >
> > > I think this is a continueing problem since my first brush with bsd
> > > some mnths ago with 3.2-RELEASE. Quit playing with it for several
> > > mnths and now installed from 4.0-STABLE snap 06/24
> > >
> > > I still see unwanted and seemingly random highlighting when opening
> > > man pages with `more', lots of it.
> > >
> >
> > You mean doing ``man <command> | more''? There is no need to use
> > more(1) man(1) pages automatically (using more(1) unless $PAGER is set
> > to something else.
>
> No, I mean in the normal way a manpage is viewed like:
> `man vi'. Apparently `more' is the default man page viewer since this
> is a brandnew install and I'v made almost no changes yet.
>
> I don't see any problems when using more like: `more file'
> or dmesg|more
>
> >
> > What exactly do you mean by "seemingly random highlighting" and is
> > this in an xterm or the console. If it's the latter it is because
>
> By random I mean I see no pattern to what is being highlighted.
>
> In console mode ( I don't have X setup yet) and with stock new install
> env settings. (echo $TERM cons25)
>
> Examples: (Using "*" to indicate highlights)
> man vi shows:
>
> VI(1) VI(1)
>
> NAME
> ex, vi, view - text editors
>
> SYNOPSIS
> ex [-eFGRrSsv] [-c *cmd*] [-t *tag*] [-w *size*] [file ...]
> vi [-eFGlRrSv] [-c *cmd*] [-t *tag*] [-w *size*] [file ...]
> view [-eFGRrSv] [-c *cmd*] [-t *tag*] [-w *size*] [file ...]
>
> [NOTE -ed some of the stuff in brackets but not all]
> Lots more through out the page.
>
> man emacs:
>
> EMACS(1) EMACS(1)
>
> NAME
> emacs - GNU project Emacs
>
> SYNOPSIS
> emacs [ *command-line* *switches* ] [ *files* *...* ]
>
> DESCRIPTION
> *GNU* *Emacs* is a version of *Emacs*, written by the author of
> the original (PDP-10) *Emacs*, Richard Stallman.
> The primary documentation of GNU Emacs is in the GNU Emacs
> Manual, which you can read on line using Info, a subsystem
> of Emacs. Please look there for complete and up-to-date
>
> [NOTE: In the synopsis area everything inside brackets is individually
> highligted with unhighlited space beteen. In the Description part,
> line one and two have the indicated highlites (Emacs) but not elsewhere
> in that paragraph... That is what I mean by `seemingly Random']
>
> > there is no settings for underlining in the termcap entry for cons25.
> > I can let you know how to change this if that is the problem.
>
> Sounds like it is, but not sure why underlining would occur in such
> a random way either.
>
>
>
>
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