On 11:36 12 Mar 2003, christian@xxxxxxxxxx <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I found the answer to my own question. | | Excerpt of my message (sent 11 March 2003): | > Since I upgraded to RH 8.0, perldoc is acting weird. You see, e.g., | > the $year element is ESC[4mnotESC[24m simply the last two digits | > (letters 'ESC' in reverse video), where "not" should just be bold. | | | The reason is that 'less' has changed slightly in 8.0 (wrt. 7.1). | >From the 'man less' page: | | -r or --raw-control-chars | Causes "raw" control characters to be displayed. The default is | to display control characters using the caret notation; for | example, a control-A (octal 001) is displayed as "^A". | [...] | -R or --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS | Like -r, but tries to keep track of the screen appearance where | possible. | | And I had my environment variable PAGER set to 'less'. Changing it to | 'less -R' (--RAW-CONTROL-CHARS) fixes perldoc. Another way is to leave pager as "less" and set the $LESS environment variable. My setting says: LESS='-snXdi -j4 -Ms -f' Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I don't waste my money; I invest it in ventures with high negative returns. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
