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Re: Weird cosmetic bug after viewing bash man page
On 12/14/06, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Aaron Humphrey wrote:
> It seems to vary. I see it with 'man vim' and 'man printf' after the
> first screen, for instance, but not with 'man man', unless I pick just
> the right line. Which makes it seem less likely that it's a problem
> with the man page formatting. In all the cases which cause the
> problem, the last bit of text on the screen is highlighted, but it
> shouldn't be.
Yes, that sounds right... like either an attribute is not being cleared,
or even that they are backwards. Um... would this by chance happen any
time a bold word gets hyphenated? (Just a WAG.)
It doesn't seem to. If I do "man bash", then the whole DESCRIPTION
section is highlighted. From Linux, it looks like only the
keywords(bash, sh, ksh) are supposed to be highlighted. (I note that
there, it uses '-Tascii' instead of '-Tlatin'.)
But... I only have man-1.5p. Maybe 'man' is the problem?
I could try downgrading. I don't use man that much, so I don't know
when it started doing this.
> The output you're after is, I presume:
>
> (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/cat
> '/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1') | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -Tlatin1
> -mandoc | /usr/bin/less -isrR)
Hmm. What happens if you enter exactly that, but 's/-Tlatin1/-c/'? (Did
you say you are using WCLI*/rxvt/xterm...?)
WCLI*.
If I type
(echo ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/cat '/usr/share/man/man1/bash.1') |
/usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc | /usr/bin/less -isrR)
then I get the same behaviour. Editing man.conf doesn't make any
difference, either, nor does substituting '-Tascii'. Even if I exit
tcsh and restart it.
BTW, TERM = 'cygwin'. Anything other info I can provide? Output of
"stty -a"? My entire cygcheck.out? Screenshots? Straces? Bueller?
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