Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:33:02 -0500 From: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj.freebsd@gmail.com> To: Matt Thyer <matt.thyer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESCape codes displayed instead of processed in pager Message-ID: <4F75FC5E.5020303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CACM2%2B-6xrRw_J17tK8pgu%2BZZLsfFGkDq6Tkk==7_PmQkvqXV3Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <4F735CEC.5060101@gmail.com> <CACM2%2B-6xrRw_J17tK8pgu%2BZZLsfFGkDq6Tkk==7_PmQkvqXV3Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Matt Thyer wrote: > > On Mar 29, 2012 5:18 AM, "Jim Bryant" <kc5vdj.freebsd@gmail.com > <mailto:kc5vdj.freebsd@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Ever since I have upgraded to 9-stable, I have noticed that the > manpages seem to be munged up with displayed instead of processed > ESCape codes. > > I believe that this is due to the terminal type of the console > changing from "cons25" to "xterm". If you fix your /etc/ttys to > reflect this things should be OK. > 1:27:57pm argus(19): tty /dev/pts/7 1:28:03pm argus(20): setenv TERM xterm 1:28:05pm argus(21): man man MAN(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MAN(1) ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m ESC[1mman ESC[22m-- display online manual documentation pages same thing going on. that's after switching every vty and the console to xterm in /etc/ttys as well. i'm kinda lost on this one. i have determined that somehow, it's the pager... hang on a sec... lemme try vi. vi seems to be working properly... it's not the termcap/terminfo... the only thing causing this seems to be more and less, both. when i pipe man into cat, everything gets properly interpreted by the tty/vty/pty, when i use the pager, i get this crap....argh..
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