From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 15 20:12: 5 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770EE37B401; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:12:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from april.chuckr.org (april.chuckr.org [66.92.147.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D6943E6A; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:12:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from april.chuckr.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by april.chuckr.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9G3AOIh022142; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:10:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by april.chuckr.org (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g9G3AMLZ022139; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:10:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: april.chuckr.org: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 23:10:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , "Andrey A. Chernov" , Ruslan Ermilov , Giorgos Keramidas , Tony Finch , , 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) In-Reply-To: <20021016024555.GG72251@regency.nsu.ru> Message-ID: <20021015230932.K18455-100000@april.chuckr.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > 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. Thanks for supporting those of us who still use troff, Greg! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@chuckr.org | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message