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Subject: Re: perldoc is broken in 9, 10 and CURRENT with "xterm" TERM
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Hi!

>  perldoc from perl 5.16 and perl 5.18 on 9, 10 and CURRENT shows ESC
> codes like this:
> 
> "ESC[4mfieldsESC[24m") that do ESC[1mnot ESC[22minclude
> 
>  Terminal tried is "xterm" (PuTTY and cygwin's rxtv) and "cygwin"
> (cygwin's ssh from console).

What does 

echo $PAGER

say ?

What does

echo $LESS

say ?

>  I've found closed PR, which explains or fixes nothing:
> 
>  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162463

If you use less as your PAGER and add an environment variable

export LESS=-r

then perldoc works. So the behaviour is not pretty, but there is a
solution.

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