Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:36:45 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Coloured manpages (was: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man Makefile.inc src/share/mk bsd.man.mk src/usr.bin/catman catman.c) Message-ID: <20021016023645.GF72251@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20021015145046.GA97009@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200210110916.g9B9GP8f064951@freefall.freebsd.org> <20021012040759.A23338@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20021012155812.GA36832@sunbay.com> <20021013003257.GA64063@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021013081038.GA14919@sunbay.com> <20021015094930.GB2083@hades.hell.gr> <20021015143304.GB12329@sunbay.com> <20021015145046.GA97009@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:50:46PM +0400, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 17:33:04 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > 1. Keep the color support turned off for catpages and man(1). > > Yes, at least on the disk or through the pipe (generally, when device is > not display). They are not only displayed on terminal but can be printed > too or post-processed on some other way. Color (and other weird formattig) should be dropped when output is not tty. ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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