Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:45:55 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, 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: <20021016024555.GG72251@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20021016024156.GC60369@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> <20021016023645.GF72251@regency.nsu.ru> <20021016024156.GC60369@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:11:56PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 October 2002 at 9:36:45 +0700, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Why? That most emphatically does not apply to troff output, and I
> can't see why it should for nroff.
Uhm.. I was a bit fast on my reasoning (thought about man(1) and ls(1) at
the first time). {t,n}roff(1) is a different issue, agreed.
./danfe
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