Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:02:57 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man Makefile.inc src/share/mk bsd.man.mk src/usr.bin/catman catman.c Message-ID: <20021013003257.GA64063@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20021012155812.GA36832@sunbay.com> References: <200210110916.g9B9GP8f064951@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021012040759.A23338@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20021012155812.GA36832@sunbay.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Saturday, 12 October 2002 at 18:58:12 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:07:59AM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:16:24AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >>> >>> So turn off the color support for now (when generating catpages), >>> until we figure out what do we do with this new feature. I have >>> a patch for grotty(1) that tells it to use the "reverse video" >>> attribute to render the italic font. Once this is accepted, we >>> can turn color support back on (if there won't be any objections >>> from the community). >> >> I much prefer the current lack of use of reverse video by man in xterms. >> If it were introduced it would do grievous harm to readability. I much >> prefer the idea of colour -- in fact here's a gratuitous plug for w3mman >> [|-....o >> > I think you have not understand the problem. Under xterm, the underlined > mode just works, so there is no problem running > > nroff -man /usr/src/bin/cat/cat.1 |less -R > > But try the same under "cons25", and see how "file ..." is rendered in > the SYNOPSIS. I've been waiting for groff 1.18 exactly because of the colour support. I can understand that it's a nuisance under the circumstances you describe, but I would be disappointed to see it turned off altogether. There must be some way to just not make it the default. Or is that what you're doing? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20021013003257.GA64063>